5/02/2009
Spy Cameras (for non-CIA agents)
Interested in getting your hands on some slick Bond-style spy equipment without spending a mint, or working at the 'Company' (a.k.a the CIA)? Rejoice because advances in technology have made camera & video technology much cheaper and much smaller.
A perfect case in point is this stylish surveillance camera watch that hides the lens in the number '2' on watch face. This watch records at a respectable 15 FPS (frames per second) with a 352×288 resolution in AVI format and saves it onto its 2GB internal memory.
Not too shabby, right? And less than $200. There are way more such spy camera equipment embedded in some crazy devices. Of course, the downside to all of this is that it is now way easier for anyone to invade your privacy or catch you in the act of making our occasional mistake.
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A perfect case in point is this stylish surveillance camera watch that hides the lens in the number '2' on watch face. This watch records at a respectable 15 FPS (frames per second) with a 352×288 resolution in AVI format and saves it onto its 2GB internal memory.
Not too shabby, right? And less than $200. There are way more such spy camera equipment embedded in some crazy devices. Of course, the downside to all of this is that it is now way easier for anyone to invade your privacy or catch you in the act of making our occasional mistake.
methodshop
5/31/2007
Google Adds Facial Recognition to Image Search
It looks like Google's 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, a company specializing in facial recognition software, is finally starting to pay off. Google Blogoscoped, a blog dedicated to everything related to Google, got a tip from a Google engineer that Google had secretly added some facial recognition abilities to its image search this week.
The feature remains unofficial and unannounced, but you can add a small query string to the end of your Google Image search URL to see the facial recognition software in action.
For example, do a normal Google image search for "Starbuck Battlestar" and your image results should produce images from the American SciFi TV show Battlestar Galactica. Then try adding "&imgtype=face" to the end of the URL. Your new search results will only contain photos of people and tight shots of their faces. Cool right?
Last August, Google Picasa product manager Adrian Graham had this to say about Google's acquisition of Neven Vision in the official Google blog:
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The feature remains unofficial and unannounced, but you can add a small query string to the end of your Google Image search URL to see the facial recognition software in action.For example, do a normal Google image search for "Starbuck Battlestar" and your image results should produce images from the American SciFi TV show Battlestar Galactica. Then try adding "&imgtype=face" to the end of the URL. Your new search results will only contain photos of people and tight shots of their faces. Cool right?
Last August, Google Picasa product manager Adrian Graham had this to say about Google's acquisition of Neven Vision in the official Google blog:
"Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects."
BeSocial: flickr | digg story | methodshop
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