I just uploaded Picasa 3.5 a couple days ago and I'm impressed with the Facial Recognition software in it! I think it's pretty good that software can scan a picture and determine what area of the picture is a face. It's even better when it can make an identification of who that face belongs to. If it can scan a photo of a big group of people and pick out all of the faces and identify all of them that's beginning to be kinda mind boggling. It doesn't care if it's a good quality photo or not or how much the person has changed or what angle the image is from. It's doing this at greater than 95% accuracy. And even when it makes mistakes, it's usually close. In some pictures that it was suggesting were Beverly, there were some older, poor quality shots that it got wrong - but every one of the wrong ones was either Bambi, Vicki, or Suzie. When all of this happens on a free software upgrade, what can you say!!
Here's one of the suggestion screens - it thinks each one of these is Deanna and of course, it's right. I can click to verify - one or all.
In this picture, it correctly identified Jill, Caroline, Pam, Bambi, Kevin, and Julie!! (I don't think it's through working on it yet.)
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