Tag: RECOGNITION

SoundHound, a music recognition service that has quickly become Shazam's No.1 competitor on both iOS and Android, has just announced that its free app for those platforms will now let you do unlimited music IDs. Previously, only the paid SoundHound app let you do that, while the free version allowed just five song identifications each month. This was a model very similar, if not identical, to the ...

What would you do? You're sitting on top of an innovation that would rock the world. This particular invention would change the entire make-up of both the virtual and real worlds -- in fact, it would inexorably merge them together, for better or worse. I am of course talking about face recognition. Face recognition already exists -- be it to biometrically to open doors, or ostensibly as a ...

Though it is currently accessible only to a closed set of beta testers, it seems the 22 minds behind Polar Rose are trying to create a sort of "Google" for people pictures -- a system that is always indexing visual information. But that's only the beginning of the service. Beta testers have recently been given access to an Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-in that will scan faces on a loaded ...