The Daily Technocrat

If you subscribe to Wired magazine, there was a small article about an emerging service called Riya. Riya takes your pictures and arranges them online. No big deal here, I even set this up with my own family with the open-source solution Gallery on my own web site.

What makes Riya different, however, is that it contains facial-recognition capabilities. That means that is I upload a picture of me and my brothers, I can tell Riya who is who, and the next time I use a picture that contain one of my brothers, it will tag the picture and label it with who is who.

Not only that, but Riya learns as it goes along. When I upload a picture of my parents, it can tell the similarities between me and my parents, and tags the picture as containing someone that is related to me!

Very cool.