Dave Lester’s Finding America

In Part One I wrote about Polar Rose, a Firefox toolbar that performs facial recognition on photos loaded in your browser.  Polar Rose programmatically creates associations between individual’s faces that you could have easily overlooked, and opens new possibilities for how we organize and search digital photographs.  Equally as important, Polar Rose is free, built [...]

The photograph above is marked up by Polar Rose, a Firefox toolbar that does facial recognition on photos loaded in your browser. Polar Rose automatically detected three faces in the photograph based upon patterns and compared the images to a database of faces stored on their servers. Had someone already tagged a particular [...]