{"id":342,"date":"2006-08-21T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T21:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/announcements\/google-strengthening-picasa-photo-search-with-image-recognition\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:44:32","slug":"google-strengthening-picasa-photo-search-with-image-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-news\/google-strengthening-picasa-photo-search-with-image-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Strengthening Picasa Photo Search with Image Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,126778-c,mergersacquisitions\/article.html\">PC World<\/a>, Google has purchased a photo search and image recognition software firm called Neven Vision, paving the way for the gathering of information from digital pictures for use in image recognition searches.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adrian Graham, Picasa product manager, announced the deal in an official Google blog posting today, saying that Neven Vision brings expertise on automatically obtaining information from a photo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects. This technology just may make it a lot easier for you to organize and find the photos you care about,&#8221; Graham wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These types of advances in free and public online web searches will eventually make paid people searches and information providers obsolete for the majority of personal and professional sleuthing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in PC World, Google has purchased a photo search and image recognition software firm called Neven Vision, paving the way for the gathering of information from digital pictures for use in image recognition searches. From the article &#8212; Adrian Graham, Picasa product manager, announced the deal in an official Google [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-news\/google-strengthening-picasa-photo-search-with-image-recognition\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Google Strengthening Picasa Photo Search with Image Recognition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-search-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6274,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/6274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}