Google's new Chrome browser isn't the only spiffy technology to come out of Google this week. Google is also releasing a new version of its Picasa photo-sharing application, complete with digital facial recognition.

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London: Beauty indeed lies in the eye of the beholder but does the beholder have to be human? Apparently not. According to the journal Vision Research, Indo-Israeli Amit Kagian successfully taught a computer to recognise attractiveness in women.

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If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat.

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Airport security checks could be transformed by enhancements in face recognition technology, being developed by Scottish researchers. A team from Glasgow University have shown they can double the accuracy of computerised face recognition, by inputting an "average image" of a fac …

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Psychology researchers at Glasgow University say they have increased the accuracy of automated face recognition to 100 per cent. If the claims are true, this development will have far-reaching consequences for privacy and security in modern society.

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Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as it tries to become a must-have tool for sorting visual content.

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This new camera from Japan (where else?) can scan your face to roughly determine your age and tell whether you're really smiling or just faking. Say cheese -- or else...

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According to Michael Bronstein, a computer scientist who works on 3-D face recognition at the Technion Institute of Technology, in Israel, another method used by commercial face-biometrics systems is to try to detect natural movements, such as blinking.

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People with bipolar disorder suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, UK researchers have found. Imaging studies carried out four years apart showed loss of brain tissue in the areas controlling memory, face recognition and co-ordination.

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Titanium Group Limited , a leading biometric and security solutions provider featuring proprietary and patented Automated Face Recognition Systems , announced that R.J.

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Among other advantages, 3-D facial recognition identifies individuals by exploiting distinctive features of a human face's surface--for instance, the curves of the eye sockets, nose, and chin, which are where tissue and bone are most apparent and which don't change over time.

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Even those who can't remember names can usually recall faces. New research from Rockefeller University suggests that a simple brain chemical, a neuropeptide called oxytocin, is a reason.

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Bioscript acquired A4Vision not so long ago. Initially Bioscript manufactured fingerprint readers only, the Bioscript V series, which benefit from a very good reputation, but Bioscript had bigger ambitions and was therefore looking to diversify.

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On the second floor of a state office building here, upstairs from a food court, three facial-recognition specialists are revolutionizing American law enforcement. They work for the Massachusetts motor vehicles department.

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A search engine that uses sophisticated facial recognition to allow users to identify and find people in online images will launch next month. But civil liberties groups say the biometric-style tool could compromise the privacy of anyone who has their picture online.

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A search engine that uses sophisticated facial recognition to allow users to identify and find people in online images will launch next month. But civil liberties groups say the biometric-style tool could compromise the privacy of anyone who has their picture online.

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Malmö, Sweden based Polar Rose is having its coming out party today and pre-announcing a product release slated for early next year. CEO Nikolaj Nyholm gave me demo of what's coming last weekend.

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Face Recognition, Emotions And How Science Determined I Will Be The Next Jackie Chan

Dynamic face recognition may be one of the last frontiers for quantifying why some of our simplest brain functions have difficulty being matched by computers.

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Polar Rose is a new search engine now being tested that will allow you to find anyone in any photo on any site. Type in the name of a person you know, and find pictures of that person all over the web, on sites like MySpace or blog pages using face-recognition technology.

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Cognitec Systems, the leading provider of face recognition technology and systems, announced that the company has been awarded a contract to provide software and services to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt BKA) after winning a pan-European tender.

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Cognitec Systems, a leading provider of face recognition technology and systems, announced an important purchase order for a large security system to be delivered to a Middle East country.

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Cognitec Systems, the leading provider of face recognition technology and systems, announced an important purchase order from UK based Ogier Electronics. Ogier is the main contractor for a large security system to be delivered to a Middle East country.

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Recognizing face, the riya-way

I read a posting a while ago about this company, Riya, that specialize in face recognition (especially for photos, what else?). Reading through various blogs related to the company, it was interesting.

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