I heard from an unnamed Google employee once about very similar responsibility-laden abilities with the massive number of images Google has access too.<p>In particular, a conversation about recognition algorithms for sorting pornography at the age-level was brought up. Now, I know this has been covered on here before, but what a massive amount of incriminating information must be kept in those servers.<p>I really would like to be able to have access to facial model information for my hypothetical advertising company. Can you imagine if I could, for instance, find out what primary five face shapes people in Iowa find trustworthy, with a high (enough) level of accuracy? I'd pay a whole lot for that, hypothetically.
Not only do they have face models. But they have immense details about those faces. Location, relationship connections, product endorsements, work and school connections...
After the last few revelations about the NSA that have come out. I think you should assume that it is all being used.
If each Facebook user has at least 100 photos they are tagged in under a variety of scenarios, quality etc. I'd of thought that would be a pretty reliable way of training some vision algo.<p>Seems thats not the case.
This reminded me a of a TED talk I saw recently: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_pqhMO3ZSY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_pqhMO3ZSY</a><p>It's only 15mins long but you can skip to 2:35 for one of the face experiments and to 8:00 for an experiment they're running now. That latter experiment is quite creepy but I'd love to know the results.
I think it would be incredibly cool just to see your doppelgangers. How many people look like you, and how similar they are. Similar to searching for your name, only to discover other people have the same name, and the curiosity of who they are. Imagine searching for people who have the same face?