{"id":8269,"date":"2016-06-10T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=8269"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:49:09","slug":"free-facial-recognition-is-really-crap-compared-to-what-the-nsa-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/computing\/free-facial-recognition-is-really-crap-compared-to-what-the-nsa-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Free facial recognition is pretty crap compared to what the NSA have"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main\" class=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"post-15\" class=\"post-15 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reverse Image Searches \u2013 Searching for people by photos<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>They don&#8217;t work very well yet&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"People Searching using Reverse Image Search\" src=\"https:\/\/facedetection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/reverse-image-search-people-photos.jpg\" alt=\"People Search Photos using reverse image search\" width=\"581\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"People search using Google\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%3CClick+on+Camera+Icon+to+the+right+to+upload+your+photo%3E&amp;tbm=isch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google Image Search<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Reverse image searching using Google\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%3CClick+on+Camera+Icon+to+the+right+to+upload+your+photo%3E&amp;tbm=isch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img title=\"Google reverse image searching\" src=\"https:\/\/facedetection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Google-reverse-image-searching.png\" alt=\"Reverse Image Search using Google\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUpload a photo to Google\u2019s Image Search, and it attempt to find similar images. With Google having the largest database of images on the web, chances are OK that you find a similar photo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"People search using Bing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/images\/searchbyimage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bing Image Search<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"People search using Bing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/images\/searchbyimage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img title=\"Bing reverse image search with photos\" src=\"https:\/\/facedetection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bing-reverse-image-search.png\" alt=\"Reverse Image Search with Bing\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBing also offers an Image Search, but because Bing sucks it is harder to use than Google\u2019s site. Click the \u201cImage Match\u201d icon, and then \u201cUpload an Image\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"People search using Yandex\" href=\"https:\/\/yandex.ru\/images\/search?rpt=imagedups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Yandex Reverse Image Search<\/a><br \/>\nRussian search engine Yandex also offers reverse image matching, including image upload.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"People search using Baidu\" href=\"http:\/\/stu.baidu.com\/n\/pc_search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Baidu Reverse Image Search<\/a><br \/>\nChinese search engine Baidu also offers reverse image matching with image upload.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Reverse Image Search with ImageRaider\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imageraider.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImageRaider<\/a><br \/>\nCurrently uses Google, Bing and Yandex to do a reverse image search by making use of the <a title=\"Incandescent reverse image lookup API\" href=\"http:\/\/incandescent.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IncandescentAPI<\/a>. Very helpful site for people using a mobile device and therefore cannot easily use the links above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"People search using Karma Decay\" href=\"http:\/\/karmadecay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Karma Decay Image Search on Reddit<\/a><br \/>\nBeta version of an image search engine on Reddit.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tineye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TinEye Reverse Image Search<\/a><br \/>\nClaims to have indexed over 12 billion images. Allows image input either via upload or with a given URL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pictriev.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PicTriev \u2013 Searching Faces on the Web<\/a><br \/>\nThis one uses real face recognition to find a similar looking face. Unfortunately it searches only within a limited set of \u201ccelebrities\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Very often people are sending pictures from someone who contacted them, by some chat community or partnership platform. They want to know whether this person is for real, or whether it is a so-called \u201cscammer\u201d, using pictures of someone else. This seems to be a big problem called \u201c<strong>romance scam<\/strong>\u201c. A few websites try to help users by searching for images of well-known scammers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Romance Scam Picture Search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scamdigger.com\/picsearch.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scam Digger Pic Search<\/a><br \/>\nBeta version using images from Romancescam forums.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"reverse image searching\" href=\"http:\/\/reverseimagesearch.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reverse Image Search Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"attractiveness\">Other demos using face detection \/ face finders technology:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/howhot.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">HowHot?<\/a> from ETH Zurich.<br \/>\nCombines age and gender estimation together with <em>attractiveness<\/em> classification. Attractiveness ranges from \u201chmmm\u201d over \u201cok\u201d to \u201chot\u201d and \u201cgodlike\u201d. Even though this sounds just like a marketing gag, the algorithms used are scientifically state-of-the art. Further explanations of the technology can be found at the same site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.celebslike.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CelebsLike.Me<\/a> from Microsoft.<br \/>\nWhich Oscar nominee do you look like? A face matching app from Microsoft using their new deep-learning technology. Upload a photo and you see which 2016 Oscar nominee looks like the person on that pic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinsornot.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twins Or Not?<\/a> from Microsoft.<br \/>\nYou can upload two photos and the face recognition engine will calculate a similarity score (100% means identical). This should be very useful for all of you who want to know whether a given face image represents the same person as in a different image. The face recognition engine is actually quite good \u2013 it is using Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/cognitive-services\/\">Project Oxford<\/a> web service.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/how-old.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How old do I look?<\/a> from Microsoft.<br \/>\nYou can upload a photo with any amount of faces on it, and the site will answer with all found faces marked, together with an age estimation of each person.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t be too shocked if your estimated age is far off reality (+- 15 years accuracy is my rough guess), but the face detector seems to be highly accurate. Microsoft uses its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/cognitive-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Oxford<\/a> web service for doing that, so you might want to check that out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torry.net\/authorsmore.php?id=6639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real-time Face Detector 2.0<\/a> from Alexander Telnykh. Detection of faces in frontal angle on digital photos and in videostreams, detection of faces in a tilt perspective. Allows front objects between \u00b115\u00b0 from horizontal, detection of faces in profile perspective, demo of Eyes Localization, demo of Face Tracking, demo of skin-color filtering.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaface.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit face images to the <em>Betaface Live Demo<\/em><\/a> by Oleksandr Kazakov <em> (there is also a discussion group available)\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.illinois.edu\/%7Eantonio\/Demo\/SelectImage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit face images to the <em>University Illinois<\/em> online face finder<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Drop or upload images to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elgom3a.com\/faces-detection-en.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ELGOM3A<\/a> face finder using the <a href=\"http:\/\/trackingjs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tracking.js<\/a> Javascript library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facedetection.com\/online-reverse-image-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>https:\/\/facedetection.com\/online-reverse-image-search\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"post-15\" class=\"post-15 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8270 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/index.jpg\" alt=\"index\" width=\"333\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/index.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/index-133x200.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverse Image Searches \u2013 Searching for people by photos They don&#8217;t work very well yet&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; Google Image Search Upload a photo to Google\u2019s Image Search, and it attempt to find similar images. With Google having the largest database of images on the web, chances are OK that you find a similar photo. 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