Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

I told you AI would be coming to your cell phone soon. Not only do cell phones come with powerful processors now but there are special circumstances that make cell phone AI both more practical and more interesting.

Cell phone cameras now auto tag the date and often GPS coordinates of pictures you take. The cell cameras also usually recognize when the photo contains a face. This is used to help with exposure and auto settings built into the camera.Because people photograph the same 30 or so people with their cell phones the face recognition software doesn’t have to learn many faces.

. . . With autotagging, the camera attaches tags as the pictures are taken. Today, cameras embed timestamps in photos, which makes it possible to sift through pictures by date. But be honest here–how reliably can you remember exactly when you took that picture of your darling daughter a year or two ago that you’d like to e-mail to her grandparents? Being able to screen for photos only of a particular person could dramatically speed up the search process.Face recognition requires computational horsepower that is hard to fit into the confines of a digital camera, but one company likely to help make it a reality is Fotonation, which already supplies face-detection software for dozens of camera models from Samsung, Pentax, and others. [ read more Up Next: Cameras that know who you photographed ]

More information:

FaceTracker Demonstrated for Mobile Phones

Papers:
Automated sorting of consumer image collections using peripheral region image classifiers ( $ ieee pdf )
A review of face recognition techniques for in-camera applications ( $ ieee pdf )
Automated indexing of consumer image collections using person recognition techniques ( $ ieee pdf )

See also:
Mobile phone smart network warns of intruders