How about a stranger? I used this today to identify who the “Yang” was in this image from CNBC. That’s kind of “the whole web”, but their index is nowhere as comprehensive as Google. And a person still has to sift through the near-matches of faces. It’s not perfect there’s no name provided directly, someone has to read the linked page to find one.
Click on either of them and the web page it takes you to has my name on it. This is a good clear photo of me, which makes the results better, but it works with less good photos too. It’s never been on the web before this post and appears in no databases as I do these searches. The Daily Mail also published an article based on this blog post. Also this Dec 2019 video reporting about Yandex facial recognition. Update: see this article about ClearView, a company doing facial recognition with scraped photos from Facebook, etc. This post was inspired by Bellingcat’s recent post on image search which noted Yandex’s image search as something particularly good and particularly called out the facial recognition. The trick is to upload photos cropped to a face and it’ll work more or less to find similar faces. I believe this is the first generally accessible facial recognition system with a large database. You can use Yandex Image Search right now as a pretty good facial recognition system for anyone who has labelled photos on the Web.
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