BKeeney Briefs » iLife http://www.bkeeneybriefs.com Software Development Using REAL Studio Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:30:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 iPhoto ’09 Face Recognition http://www.bkeeneybriefs.com/2009/01/iphoto-09-face-recognition/ http://www.bkeeneybriefs.com/2009/01/iphoto-09-face-recognition/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:19:14 +0000 Bob Keeney http://www.bkeeneybriefs.com/files/342db2c95eeb78562386b14ac94e020f-98.html#unique-entry-id-98 By far my favorite new feature in iPhoto is the face recognition.  It’s pretty good too for an inexpensive application.  It makes me wonder how good the government software is.  :)

My son is now 8 and we have a lot of pictures of him as a baby.  I picked out a few pictures and told iPhoto who it was and it went to town.  The more photos you confirm/deny identification on the better it gets.

A couple of times it picked out ‘faces’ that weren’t theirs, but for the most part it’s been pretty flawless.  One thing that gives it a little problem is my wife’s family.  She comes from a family of 6 kids and you know what?  They all have similar facial characteristics.  iPhoto, for a while, kept marking my wife’s siblings as her but after 10 minutes it was right nearly 100% of the time.

I don’t review my photos very often.  This has been an excellent excuse to waste some time and think about old friends and events.  Perhaps this a stop and smell the roses event.

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