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Google Tests Face Detection Technologies

May 31, 2007 by Gilad  
Filed under Computers

As part of improving its image detection and ranking algorithm and as a result of Google’s acquisition of Neven Vision back in July of 2006, who specializes in object detection in images, Google enabled a new search variable in its SERPS. The variable &imgtype= is, so far, enabled for the inputs “face” and “news“.

For example a regular image search for the term Bahama gives the following results:

noface.jpg

While a search with the added “face” variable gives a whole bunch of faces of people:

face.jpg

Lastly, the input “news” returns all recent news related images from recent stories:

news.jpg

[via GOOGLESYSTEM]

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