Riya Facial Recognition Photo Search Site to launch This Week

[mandy]

Riya.com a new photo search site that uses facial recognition technology is set to launch this week according to the company's blog.

More info:

Web site: http://www.riya.com
Riya CEO's blog: http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/
Riya marketing head's blog: http://www.horsepigcow.com/2005/10/countdown.html

[mandy]

Another article on Riya:

In a nutshell, Riya's a system that's smart enough to recognize stuff in pictures after being trained—faces, text, objects—and then auto-tag all the photos in a folder containing all that stuff. Automatically. Just upload your pictures, set your privacy settings (how and if you want photos to be shared), "teach" Riya by clicking on thumbnails of the faces it finds in your photos, and sit back as it "looks" at each photo and tags the faces it finds.

full article: http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1895,1878867,00.asp

[mandy]

If the international buzzwords are to be believed, Google, the largest search engine in the world will acquire Riya, a startup company founded by Munjal Shah.

Riya is an online photo service based in California that has a cool technology to recognize human faces and tags it with names. The company uses artificial intelligence and face recognition technology and is one up over Flickr...

Google may possibly acquire the company for $40 million

full article: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata...wsno=29982

[rose]

That was a quick $40 million.  :blinkie: