Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets (techcrunch.com) 60
Today, Google is introducing an easier way to aggregate your pet photos in its Photos app -- by allowing you to group all your pet's photos in one place, right beside the people Google Photos organized using facial recognition. TechCrunch reports: This is an improvement over typing in "dog," or another generalized term, because the app will now only group together photos of an individual pet together, instead of returning all photos you've captured with a "dog" in them. And like the face grouping feature, you can label the pet by name to more easily pull up their photos in the app, or create albums, movies or photo books using their pictures. In addition, Google Photos lets you type in an animal's breed to search for photos of pets, and it lets you search for photos using the dog and cat emojis. The company also earlier this year introduced a feature that would create a mini-movie starring your pet, but you can opt to make one yourself by manually selecting photos then choosing from a half-dozen tracks to accompany the movie, says Google.
Local version to categorize with face recognition? (Score:3)
>. not uploading my goddamn photos to google (
That's what I was thinking, but I wouldn't mind having all the pics on my phone automatically organized by face recognition. Anybody know the best way to do this on Linux, locally? Obviously it wouldn't know WHO they are, just recognize "these two pics are the same person". 10 or 15 years ago I used some popular Linux program that did a pretty good job of putting similar pics together, but I'm sure today's options are much better.
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That's the one! (Score:2)
I couldn't remember the name of it, but I think it was digiKam I used many years ago. I bet it's really good now.
That's about right (Score:2)
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Oh sure, let's pretend having to work on a morally ambiguous program is the embarrassing equivalent of a guy who drives a truck from place to place cleaning Port-a-potties all day.
You realize he answers, "Truck driver" when people ask him what he does for a living, don't you, programmer?
Re: I can't fathom... (Score:5, Interesting)
It is likely using the same codebase that is used to recognize individual people and could likely be expanded to other interesting research like recognizing individual birds in the wild.
As far as the pet angle, there are plenty of people that enjoy this kind of work and this kind of work is sadly increasing with things like pet pedicures and pet massages and things even more bizarre. There is a ton of money to be made from people who feed their dogs better than half the world's human population.
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I read last week that pet toothpaste is a $2 billion a year industry in the U.S.
I don't think that toothpaste would make a very good pet, but I suppose it has advantages. Cheap, low maintenance, doesn't eat.
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As far as the pet angle, there are plenty of people that enjoy this kind of work and this kind of work is sadly increasing with things like pet pedicures and pet massages and things even more bizarre. .
Each to their own I guess.
I still marvel at my dog being able to log in to XBox Live through the Kinnect as I *painstakingly* set up an XBox One profile for her. You know, as a...errm...proof of concept...
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My old cat (may she rest in peace) downloaded Chrome for me one night and then opened about 80 empty tabs.
Okay, I may have just been drunk and didn't remember downloading Chrome but at the time I was still using Firefox.
The part about her opening 80 empty tabs is definitely true though - she was sleeping on the keyboard when I woke up.
The cat I have now actually has a twitter account.and to my amazement still has nearly 500 followers despite her complete failure to convince me to promote it online. She has
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It is likely using the same codebase that is used to recognize individual people and could likely be expanded to other interesting research like recognizing individual birds in the wild.
We had one white cat that it thought was a person in a few photos. It also recognizes my daughter's Barbie Dolls and think they're a person. There are several statue photos that Google Photos has listed as people too.
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Bullshit (Score:1)
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I guess a good test would be (Score:2)
Your girlfriend with a collar and leash....
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It's not working (Score:2)
Apparently my dog is a cat (Score:2)
Please Spread some Cheese on this ... (Score:2)
given the wide variety in looks this may take a good chunk of a DC to sort out
will a computer know that a "Taco Dog" and a Tibetan Mastiff are both Dogs??
how about a Siamese and a Maine Coon both being cats??
Wow! (Score:2)
so convenience
doge approves
such search
pls no lolcats
Found in (Score:1)
the food section.
A first-world problem if there ever was one (Score:1)
No way other really (Score:1)
Don't Be Evil... (Score:2)
In choosing Don't Be Evil as it's famous motto (history will judge if they failed that test), Google neglected other, less obvious aspects. One that comes to mind right now is Don't Be Creepy; while less fraught with meaning, it's much easier to judge... and they're failing.
Just tested it: (Score:2)
My parents have a Boston Terrier that is stout, and now in her older age is even quite hefty.
We have a Boston Terrier that is basically a cat. She's a bit lanky and has completely different markings. Per Google they're the same dog.
I'll go ahead and share for reference. [app.goo.gl] If storage were unlimited I would load up all my old photos too, but I would quickly overload my space. Too bad there's not a "pay once keep forever" option on space instead of a regular bill.
Apple quietly has this too (Score:2)
Still creepy (Score:1)
Doesn't work with Llamas (Score:1)
It seems to have some problems differentiating between Llamas, and incorrectly identifying coyotes.
Was this designed by city folk?