[jshort]

I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy.

Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is already confirmed so payment is a breeze, perhaps a pin for extra security. Just a funky idea of what I could see sometime from now.

[DTE]

Seems like a whole lot of technology solving a problem I don't think many people have.

[lbrandy]

Let's keep in mind that they could already do this, relatively trivially, with far less technology, except you'd hand them your credit card first, instead of last.

[nl]

I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy.

Umm yeah. How would that work exactly?

One person's privacy issue is another person's feature request.

[dcheng]

This reminds me a lot of some scene in minority report. Tom Cruise ended up having to inject his face with some chemical that completely changed his facial features. If this was the norm, people would have to resort to things like that to go unnoticed or hide.

[gonehome]

The main big negative implication that I can think of (and that caused Google to back off the research) is governments using it for surveillance. I think a lot of the potential features of the technology could be really cool, but that's a pretty serious negative.

[barefoot]

"and that caused Google to back off the research". Do you have an article or other sources for this? It sounds very interesting.

[dcheng]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/port... looks like they can do it "When you feed it 50 pictures... you will appear in the top 5 results half the time."

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/06/08/face-recognitio...

"Google’s Eric Schmidt last week stated that facial recognition was the only technology the company has ever held back from the public. 'We built that technology and withheld it [because] people could use in a very bad way,' he said at the D9 conference"

seems like google just doesn't want to have too much negative backlash

[johnx123-up]

Do you have any links on research on this area? I'm looking to have Ph.D. on this domain.

[gonehome]

Unfortunately not, other than the links posted by dcheng and Eric Schmidt's comments I haven't seen anything else.