[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.