New Facebook Application Recognizes Your Face

There are about one billion pictures uploaded to Facebook each month. With this staggering amount of photos people put on the web, it's hard to keep up. There might be pictures lingering out in the Facebook world of you that you don't even know about. But how do you find these pictures?



Face.com has an answer for you: Photo Finder. It's a Facebook application that became available Tuesday (to some) that can find those unknown pictures of you or your friends. Photo Finder uses photo recognition technology that may even be smarter than the technology your favorite TV detective uses. It's able to recognize faces even if they're not facing the camera. So even if the picture has bad lighting or is blurry - Photo Finder should be able to figure out who is in the picture.

Once Photo Finder recognizes the faces of your friends it will automatically tag them for you. The app also lets you have face galleries. This is the feature that allows you to find unknown or lost photos of yourself by searching your friend's galleries.

Unfortunately Face.com only released it to a few people Tuesday because it's in Alpha mode. It should be available to the public later this year, but for now you can only register for the waiting list.

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