Cameras that know who you photographed

[misi]

http://www.news.com/Cameras-that-knowbr--who-you-photographed/8301-13580_3-9816371-39.html?part=dht

Many cameras today can detect the faces of those being photographed, which is handy for guiding the camera to set its exposure, focus, and color balance properly. But the more difficult challenge of face recognition is more useful after the photo has been taken.

That's because of a concept called autotagging, one of a number of technologies that make digital photography qualitatively different from the film photography of the past.
Tags of descriptive data can be attached to digital photos, and they help people find and organize pictures. The only problem is that tagging your photos, today a laborious manual task, is like eating your vegetables. It's good for you but a lot of people don't like it.
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That level of sophistication is beyond a camera's abilities today, requiring a full-fledged computer run by people with Ph.D. degrees. But particularly given that Sony already has introduced a camera with smile detection, it's not hard to imagine a day when your photos could also some day be tagged "delighted" or "disgusted," too.

I forgot that interview about my eating habits... :

 

[Dane]

I'm getting a "smile detection" camera to give as a Xmas present this year, so I'll have a play around with it and tell ya what I think of it, I don't have high expectations thou...

 

[misi]

I'm getting a "smile detection" camera to give as a Xmas present this year, so I'll have a play around with it and tell ya what I think of it, I don't have high expectations thou...

Hmmm... scared to buy it for yourself eh?
Tell people about that camera's smile detection capability,plenty smiles will be around!
Waiting for the photos!

 

[Cheeky Chef]

 

[misi]

"Cameras that know who you photographed"
Where is my name? ??

Joking only,but ATM it is not far from the truth... (see the "Dentist" thread)

 

[Dane]

Had a little play with this new camera, there are actually different degrees of smiles you can choose, plus you can touch the screen of where exactly you want to focus the picture.

Hope it's not all gimmicks...

I won't actually be putting this camera to the real test until Xmas, when this camera is designed to catch my son's elusive smile, point a camera at him and the smile disappears, so we have few pictures of him actually smiling