Comments on: Polar Rose: Europe’s Entrant Into Facial Recognition

By: NexGen Technology Blog » Polar Rose Debuts At Gnomedex

NexGen Technology Blog » Polar Rose Debuts At Gnomedex — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:03:41 +0000

[...] first wrote about the company last December, way before they were ready to take beta testers. But even then it was clear that [...]

By: Polar Rose Debuts At Gnomedex

Polar Rose Debuts At Gnomedex — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:41:54 +0000

[...] first wrote about the company last December, way before they were ready to take beta testers. But even then it was clear that [...]

By: Lablogatoire » Archive du blog » Ah oui, il a le nez de son père…

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:43:04 +0000

[...] Ce qui m’intéresse de ce produit, ce sont les applications futures que la compagnie en fera. M. Fleury mentionnait que le marché de la création d’avatars pour les mondes 3D les intéressait. On peut s’imaginer partir de la photo d’une personne, utiliser un service comme Polar Rose ou encore Gizmoz pour obtenir le modèle 3D de son visage, puis le modifier avec evolver qui serait en ligne. Par la suite, on pourrait même mixer avec le modèle de sa blonde (ou de Penelope Cruz) pour voir ce que ça donnerait. Par ailleurs, il me semble que evolver ferait une combinaison parfaite avec les travaux de Ken Perlin pour démocratiser l’animation 3D. Selon les réactions très positives qu’ils ont eu lors de leur démonstration auprès des jeunes à Arcadia, il me semble qu’une telle combinaison serait gagnante auprès du jeune grand public et pourrait aggrandir considérablement le marché de evolver, qui s’adresse principalement aux professionnels de l’animation. [...]

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:01:39 +0000

Very cool. This could really take off. I like it.

By: dtf

dtf — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:52:51 +0000

Similar technology is available to run as a backend to image-related websites at http://server.imgseek.net/

By: Gizmoz at Serendipitia

Gizmoz at Serendipitia — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:02:36 +0000

[...] No post, Michael Arrington contava outra de suas muito invejáveis oportunidades de conferir um serviço novo que muita gente nem cogita. O serviço da vez era o Gizmoz, que está prestes a lançar uma função que vai deixá-lo mil vezes à frente da concorrência (há alguma?): agora os usuários vão poder fornecer ao web-aplicativo uma foto do próprio rosto, e ele irá transformá-la em um objeto 3D. Sim, usando nada mais que uma foto. [...]

By: Karmic Justice

Karmic Justice — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:21:36 +0000

When Biometrics Goes Wrong…

File this under the category: just because you can do something doesn’t mean you necessarily should do something.
There’s been a good amount of recent chatter online regarding the upcoming IE and Firefox plugins for the Polar Rose photo ind…

By: eas

eas — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:50:03 +0000

Text search engines show that results don’t have to be perfect to be useful.

Take a google search. If I find a useful result in the first 10-20 results, I’m usually pretty happy. That’s only a 5-10% success rate, and yet it’s good enough, because I can easily eyball 10-20 results.

Image recognition needs to be applied in such a way that relatively low accuracy rates can still provide a useful result to the user.

I’ll have to spend some time with Polar Rose to see if they’ve managed to hit a sweet spot.

By: Amy Wilsch

Amy Wilsch — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:51:23 +0000

Actually Amazon just did two talks on their web services APIs at EBIG.org last month (one for java and one for .NET). It’s VERY cool. We may even use it to ride on. I’m very impressed by what they’ve done.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:15:04 +0000

Yet another startup building their business on Amazon’s EC2…. Do I see a trend forming here?

By: Citizen Media Watch » Polar Rose creating some buzz

Citizen Media Watch » Polar Rose creating some buzz — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:55:08 +0000

[...] Swedish photo/video face recognition search engine Polar Rose have got some attention in the States. Most recently on the front page of Red Herring, this article on CNN and a TechCrunch post by Michael Arrington that got some sceptical comments and then replies from Polar Rose representatives. [...]

By: lab:kloud9 - Sweden’s Polar Rose provides “image DNA”

lab:kloud9 - Sweden’s Polar Rose provides “image DNA” — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:32:28 +0000

[...] We can see that the TechCrunch crowd has already begun to question (see comments) the technologies commercial viability and/or whether it extends beyond faces and humans (what, like a dog’s ass?). Anyways, there is a connection here to social media (and possibly the FBI/CIA) and any time we can make the web more sortable, I’m all for it. [...]

By: Amy Wilsch

Amy Wilsch — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:54:59 +0000

I honestly don’t understand why anyone cares about facial recognition for anything other than security purposes. Anyone care to enlighten me?

By: Ryan Marle

Ryan Marle — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:34:27 +0000

Once this technology starts to snowball, at least there won’t be as much identity theft. Facial finger print. Heh.

By: Automated Clothes Matcher

Automated Clothes Matcher — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:01:18 +0000

[...] sign in | my account | help hubscore76HotAutomated Clothes Matcherby pauledmondson | Was this article useful to you? YES or NO (flag this hub) Lots of Facial Recongnition TechnologyCan’t the same technology be applied to match clothes?All I want for Christmas is an automated clothes matching programDear Riya Claus, Would you please make an automated clothes matching program for me for Christmas. I’ll take pictures of all my clothes and you tell me which articles go together. Happy Holidays, Paul EdmondsonMaybe I Should Go Straight to the top of RiyaDear Riya CEO, In your companies 20% time (i’m just guessing), could someone stich together with your existing technology an automated clothes matcher. I really need help color coordinating. Regards, Paul EdmondsonClothes [...]

By: Multimedias.mobi » Snap Image Search

Multimedias.mobi » Snap Image Search — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:16:12 +0000

[...] Search engine Snap launched an image search feature today. The results are no better than that offered by the big guys, but Snap’s unique two column interface is something that some users find to be really cool. The problem with the lack of available photo meta data to assist with queries continues to plague all search engines, of course, leading to less than great results. It will be interesting to see if some of the new services launching, such as Polar Rose, can help by partnering with them and leveraging user generated descriptive data. More on Snap here. [...]

By: basicity

basicity — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:48:27 +0000

Does the name Polar Rose sounds funny to anyone?

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Polar Rose、顔面認識分野にヨーロッパから参入

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Polar Rose、顔面認識分野にヨーロッパから参入 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:29:48 +0000

[...] [原文へ] PolarRose [...]

By: MrBigEars

MrBigEars — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:04:48 +0000

Remember that Google (who owns Picasa and has a “little” search engine thingy) bought a company called Neven Vision last year…

By: Fresqui.com

Fresqui.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:35:11 +0000

Polar Rose, el análisis facial llega a la red…

En una red donde todo se tiene a catalogar y analizar, a pesar de los esfuerzos por añadirle información semántica las fotografías todavía se escapan a los poderosos algoritmos de análisis de contenidos. Sin embargo Polar Rose puede que revolucio…

By: dray park

dray park — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:40:36 +0000

Isn’t Europe’s real entrant into face recognition Cognitec?

Is Polar Rose even entered in FRVT (Face Recognition Vendor
Test)? Or for that matter Techcrunch fav Riya?

How does Polar Rose’s stuff differ from Cyberextruder?

People who actually know something about face recognition want
to know.

By: TheKid

TheKid — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:08:18 +0000

@Jan Erik

No offense, but if you got funded on those 4 revenue generating ideas alone, than I wish you & your VCs good luck

I wouldn’t be surprised if some aggregator porn sites were interested in this, so their users could quickly find all related paid content for the selected actors

By: me

me — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:56:23 +0000

For the most part, techcrunch has turned into a circus attractor peddling cotton candy. It’s extremely pretty and sweet but no benefits. It’s back to the same ole media games, selectively generating buzz for a few (those who have money) and butchering the average joe in the process.

By: copycat

copycat — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:05:16 +0000

First of all this news is too old and second don’t copy press releases.

By: Pixcavator

Pixcavator — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:58:52 +0000

Jan Erik: Maybe I am too much of a skeptic, but you see so many image search/recognition/match etc programs that don’t work. And you ask yourself why? The answer is: because you loose information as you convert from 3D to 2D. It is an “incorrect problem”: one question has two different answers (or more). The same 2D image can come from two different 3D objects. This is what so many optical illusions are based on. Is it a ball or is it a concavity? If the light is from the right it is convex, if from the left concave. Even interaction with users does not seem to help with the problem, so I have doubts… By the way, I have no doubts about the need for this stuff.