The search engine giant Google will soon face some stiff competition from a Swedish company called Polar Rose.
Polar Rose is planning to release a new visual search engine with face recognition and 3D imaging software, the beta of which will be available by February 2007.
The users of this new search engine will have to enter the name and the facial characteristics of the person whom they are searching for. The search engine will be available both as a plug-in for Firefox and IE and could also be integrated in a web site as it is API based.
When activated the engine will display all the images of people that one encounter while surfing and you can just click on any image and the application will search the web for some more images of the person.
This method of entering visual characteristics of a person for searching his or her images on the web is a new idea and should be welcomed by the community.
Via: abcnews
