FACE2FACE: Two interesting apps based on Face.com’s API

in News by Gal Mor — July 7, 2010 at 3:03 pm | 3 comments

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Face.com – developer of  face recognition technology – recently announced the opening of a new platform API which aims to extend photo tagging across the web. We previewed two promising new applications for the iphone recently launched based on Face.com’s API.

Facelook

FaceLook is a social networking face recognition App. Meeting friends or followers and having a hard time remembering what were their names? Just photograph them and FaceLook will identify them for you.

1. Log into your Facebook account
2. Take a photo of a friend
Then, FaceLook matches the photo to your friends’ photos, and tells you who this friend is
Step 3 – Share it on your/their Wall
Unlike other face recognition services, you don’t need to manually teach FaceLook. FaceLook learns by itself from Facebook. However, when photographing, be sure the conditions are ideal. In some cases, Facelook couldn’t identify the person in the picture for us. The matches are made using your friends’ Facebook photos.

Download Facelook (1.99$)

Fun Face

Fan Face offers soccer fans a cool way of supporting national teams. You can easily put colorful makeup, flags, wigs, scarfs, glasses and other accessories on your own photos, friend’s photos, and group shots.
The app also let’s you to share and show off your fan photos on Facebook, Twitter or via E-mail. Applying makeup is easy, fast and fun. You can Pinch and adjust your makeup or have it done fully automatically.

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About Face.com

Face.com develops face recognition technology. Two of its main applications run on facebook – PhotoTagger, which automatically tags your facebook friends, and Photo Finder, which finds lost photos of friends.

After scanning billions of photos and tagging over 50 million users through Photo Tagger and Photo Finder on Facebook, the company is moving ahead with its goal of making face recognition approachable and available to all.

The new API,which is still in open alpha stage, lets external developers tap into Face.com’s face detection and face recognition through simple REST API calls. If you’re looking to build a photo tagging application, create personalized e-cards or campaigns, or any other sci-fi idea that comes to mind, you can now use Face.com’s platform for that purpose. Facebook users would eventually be able to identify images of themselves and friends as they browse any website.

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