Microsoft Patents Image Dating Application
- Saturday, March 01 2008 @ 01:40 pm
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The dialaphone blog has an article called Microsoft Patents Killer Mobile Dating Application. While I don't think the application will be a "killer" I do find it interesting. Here is a quote of the abstract right from the patent application called Image-Based Face Search:
"A search includes comparing a query image provided by a user to a plurality of stored images of faces stored in a stored image database, and determining a similarity of the query image to the plurality of stored images. One or more resultant images of faces, selected from among the stored images, are displayed to the user based on the determined similarity of the stored images to the query image provided by the user. The resultant images are displayed based at least in part on one or more facial features. "
Sounds neat, comparing facial features of an image to find other images with faces that closely match it. I guess if your girl friend dumps you can always go out and find someone that looks like her! Kidding aside, I do think this would be a useful tool. The problem is, it sounds an awful lot like what Eyealike is already doing (see story Dating Search via Facial Recognition). We reported on this story mid November 2007. Eyealike even have a live demo of this technology you can try out called Faces. The demo allows to either find a match on some popular dating sites based on a photo of a person you find attractive or you can upload a photo of yourself to see which celebrities closely match you. Eyealike uses facial recognition for their visual based search. I'm not sure what this will do for Microsoft's patent application, maybe they can just buy out Eyealike.
"A search includes comparing a query image provided by a user to a plurality of stored images of faces stored in a stored image database, and determining a similarity of the query image to the plurality of stored images. One or more resultant images of faces, selected from among the stored images, are displayed to the user based on the determined similarity of the stored images to the query image provided by the user. The resultant images are displayed based at least in part on one or more facial features. "
Sounds neat, comparing facial features of an image to find other images with faces that closely match it. I guess if your girl friend dumps you can always go out and find someone that looks like her! Kidding aside, I do think this would be a useful tool. The problem is, it sounds an awful lot like what Eyealike is already doing (see story Dating Search via Facial Recognition). We reported on this story mid November 2007. Eyealike even have a live demo of this technology you can try out called Faces. The demo allows to either find a match on some popular dating sites based on a photo of a person you find attractive or you can upload a photo of yourself to see which celebrities closely match you. Eyealike uses facial recognition for their visual based search. I'm not sure what this will do for Microsoft's patent application, maybe they can just buy out Eyealike.
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