Google Photos can now recognize people even if their backs are turned

Google Photos has improved its facial recognition technology. The application now allows you to tag a person in images even if their face is not shown. The research team found that it was possible to do this with recent or older recordings. Android control. Cool or very weird?

If the person has their back turned, a warning will appear “face available for addition”. The function makes it possible to change the tagged person if the association is incorrect, or completely remove the tag. Android control He tested it at a photo archive a couple of years ago and said it worked most of the time.

There are some disadvantages. Google Photos cannot recognize a person from a very close side angle. But if the photo was taken from a farther angle, it identifies her, even if her face is barely visible. There is also an improvement for masked faces.

Google hasn’t officially announced the change and didn’t explain how it works, but there are some suggestions. It is likely that the technology used by the company can store information from the full head of users, from videos or photos in which their faces actually appear. This may also machine learning capabilities Google may identify other elements such as clothing or surroundings.

Google Photos and other achievements thanks to AI

In May, the search engine giant announced that Google Photos would be powered by artificial intelligence. Application MagicEditor, which will be available to test later this year on select Pixel phones and will even let you move people around in photos. Also refine some details, for example, improve the sky or remove unnecessary objects. And all this in a couple of touches of the screen.

Approximately 1.7 billion images are edited directly in Google Photos every month. “Magic Editor takes the editing experience to the next level and we can’t wait to see how you turn your photos into something even more amazing and special for yourself,” the company said in a statement.

Google will also make available another feature that will help you verify the authenticity of a photo online. “About this image” will be similar to the “about this link” drop-down menu that appears in regular search results. This tool will provide information about when Google first indexed the image. Also about where this or that similar image first appeared.

And then there’s Bard, their AI chatbot, which is now available for free in over 180 countries. The tech firm said it will soon also be able to generate images from a short text description, as DALL-E and Midjourney are already doing. This will be done through integration with Adobe Firefly, Adobe’s artificial intelligence model.