On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:16, Steve Fosdick wrote:
I wonder if what you describe as face localisation is what most people and advertisers think of as face recognition.
It is...but you're all bright enough to appreciate the distinction.
Does anyone have a digital camera that tells them who is in the picture? I'd always assumed "face regognition" feature meant the camera looks for faces so it can apply other algorithms to the face such as red eye reduction.
I'm afraid red-eye correction is normally more primitive than that.
With good luck a camera with such a sensor will note the orientation in the EXIF data so further automatic processing is possible.
In my (limited) experience, they do.
As long as what is recorded with the photo in the first case is accurate, for example longitude and latitude rather than the name of the nearest place there is scope to improve the presentation offered by the software even on old photos.
I'm afraid I wasn't being clear in my earlier message. If you're one of the lucky people having a camera-with-GPS, I imagine everything will work perfectly. I was talking about trying to geo-reference photos that don't have such data -- I have about 20,000 such photos myself, as well as about 50 Gb of photos from the Colchester Archaeological Trust that could do with being geo-referenced!
..Adrian