Well, it is certainly an interesting piece of news. Google's patent application for the celebrity facial recognition has been published by the USPTO. The patent application is titled “Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications.” It is definitely an interesting approach. The patent application is apt and in place with google's idea to launch Face Recognition apparel for mobile devices. Amidst the debate over the pros and cons of this technology, the celebrity face recognition patent database has been tested with about a thousand celebrities. The technology works on the fact that it precisely identifies the celebrities facial images using an intra model analysis and other combination technologies. The patent application states "Recognition is performed based on precision and recall to identify the face images as belonging to a celebrity or indicate that the face is unknown". Certainly it is an interesting technology but not to forget the fact that every technology has it merits and demerits.Well how successful and popular this technology will be amongst the technology savvy, for that we have to wait for a while.
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