Facebook tries to recognize users in photos

Facebook globally, but quietly, rolled out a relatively new service that allows users to automatically mark other users on uploaded photos. “Relatively” - because the opportunity itself, according to the BBC , has been available in America since December 2010, and it has become publicly available only now.


So, in the Russian version of Facebook in the privacy settings there is an item “ Invite friends to tag me in photos ”, which by default is set to “ Enabled ”. If this is the case, then the friends of the user who uploaded the photo and want to mark it on them will see a suggestion to mark it without the traditional choice from the list. Apparently, we are not talking about full recognition of images, since the Help says that when loading "... we determine what is common in these images and save brief information about it ... they [photo] are automatically checked with brief information that we have about The general properties of the pictures on which you were marked. The results of this benchmarking analysis can also be used to group pictures or identify you in a photo. "

As always, the biggest complaint was related to the fact that the opportunity is enabled by default for all users and not all of them would like their people to be automatically put on new photos. Traditionally, the “thin” advice of Sophos experts appeared immediately to change the settings to the extent of a dodgy service.
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Some time ago it became known that Google is not going to engage in face recognition.