First, Riya seemed targeted to help you upload photos of people and do face recognition to find others. Image search company Riya has applied its matching technology to a new fashion shopping site called Like.
While I was digging through the patents, a discussion started up at Google Blogoscoped on the purchase, and the news spread to GigaOm in Google Buys Photo Recognition Company, which both mention previous attempts by Google to purchase Riya...
Currently, Riya allows you to upload a photo, define the photo as matching a particular person and then it tries to scan other photos to figure out if other photos in your collecton match that person, using face recognition.
Currently, Riya allows you to upload a photo, define the photo as matching a particular person and then it tries to scan other photos to figure out if other photos in your collecton match that person, using face recognition.
Currently, Riya allows you to upload a photo, define the photo as matching a particular person and then it tries to scan other photos to figure out if other photos in your collecton match that person, using face recognition.
Riya is based in California and uses face recognition and text recognition to automatically tag and search photos. Of course, Riya is just the kind of technology that could help tag the photos of the big GigaPixel project.
