So finally today i got sometime n i started playing with Riya's face n text reacognition. i started tagging faces with names n lil details like gender, email, and age. Everything seems to work fine except that Riya can only identify faces which have somewat frontal orientation. Riya allows both manual n automatic recognition. Ajax kungfu rules the interface … You can drag n drop using mouse or you can use ur tab key on the keyboard whichever suits your taste .. COOL .. yet one shortcoming that i found in Riya's interface was that they have assumed all users will have their desktop customised for 1024×768 or more. Seems their designers have overlooked the possibility.
You can keep on tagging images or use ur auto recognition feature .. watever u do the Riya's recognition engine keeps on working in the background … learning. Yet there is a stage in AI where more learning can also detoriate the recognition.Riya guys need to build better and better algorithms for recognising the trillions of faces which are getting pumped into it as fast as the available bandwidth will allow.
Riya's Uploader can be lil annoying at times coz it takes a lotta time uploading however it also has the advantage of providing the user a liberty to loaf around n in the meantime it uploads the snaps for them.
Now Riya or Flickr ??… Well am not telling that it's over between me and Flickr - I still think that Flickr is a very beautiful application and it's got many orders of magnitude in interface n functionality than Riya. Flickr is more userfriendly n artistic. If they somehow connect their visual database it ll make our life lot easier. After all both are tools that's fun to use.
I havent checked the community of Riya but i can expect that it has grown very fast.Am just waiting for the day when these Visual Database communities or public forums like Keyhole community where all users can upload such photos, recognize them n be able to track people all round the globe as to where they are right now .. Exciting isnt it …
i hv started building my app to achieve something like taht … yep my app was able to recognise faces using eigen faces in frontal profile however it still needs to track down faces in images of any size using Stero face detection..Yep all this needs lil time which am running short of these days .. neways .. lets hope for the best …
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