Dec 162010
 

Facebook today released new feature that will make your Facebook Tagging feature much easier. In their blog today Facebook announced face recognition tagging which basically will try to tag you or your friends in photos that were published.

This isn’t really something new , Facebook back in October launched pretty much similar feature that allowed you to tag person in group of photos instead of just one by one, this time Facebook tagging recognition software will try to recognize your face in photos that your friends posted and let’s hope that it will do good job. Some of my friends told me I look like James Dean so if somebody adds picture of James Dean am I going to get tagged? Weird huh?

facebook recognition tagging software picture

Currently this Facebook tagging recognition software is only distributed to 5% of the Facebook accounts but if all turns out to be good, many will get it by end of this year.

We’ll be debuting tag suggestions to users in the United States over the next few weeks. Look for tags suggestions when you upload groups of photos that feature the same friends, and see how they can help you share life’s occasions—large and small—every day.

Well if you are interested more about this feature I would suggest to head over to Facebook Blog and read more about it, and don’t forget to share this article on Facebook with the blue button above. (Thanks)

  • http://twitter.com/matthewogborne Matthew Ogborne

    Considering that the number of people(faces) it needs to match is quite a sensible number, then this should work quite well, especially if its limited to friends or friends of friends.

    Matthew

  • http://www.oclue.com @JoeHobot

    True True :)

  • Anonymous

    This article brings out the disturbing issue of how accurate the the software actually is, in addition to this there are several more privacy issues that facebook and its photo tagging software fail to address. People should really look to more secure sites such as Mycube and Diaspora before its too late.