Google Photos adds a chilling feature

Already impressive in its ability to identify and sort photos, Google Photos brings its share of improvements over time. Last? Identify people, even when they’re from behind.

Google Images It is now able to recognize and identify “faces” even when a person is from behind. While it’s still not 100% guaranteed, the app just got a lot more impressive…or scary?

With Google Photos, you can no longer hide

Automatic photo syncing, facial recognition, and free photo storage were strong arguments in convincing users to switch to Google Photos. Despite its millions of users, the American giant’s app is not resting on its laurels, rather it appears to be a formidable laboratory for testing new machine learning functions.

It was our colleagues from Android Authority who noticed in some of their photos that their loved ones were correctly identified, even when they were from behind. Google sometimes flags the topic automatically, or simply offers to add it manually.

If you go to Google Photos and choose to display only photos of a person (thanks to the search tool), there is a chance that new photos that were not recognized before will appear. Google has not yet officially communicated about these “improvements” that aim to make its AI-infused tool more practical to use than ever before.

Whether it’s printing your photos or sharing shared memories with your loved ones, Google Photos has become a necessity, even if it means interfering more than ever with our private lives, which aren’t that much anymore. Google always highlights the fact that this face grouping feature It can be disabled Stored images can be deleted.

How does Google Photos recognize faces without seeing them?

The new Google Photos feature uses a technology called “learning transfer” Which consists of training an AI model on a large database of images and then adapting it to a specific domain.

In this case, the model learns to recognize people’s physical characteristics, such as hair color, body shape, dress style, and so on. It can therefore associate these characteristics with a face that is already known in the user’s photo library.

For example, if you have several photos of your brother with his face visible, the model can learn to recognize him even when he is from behind or wearing a hat. It can also distinguish your brother from another person who is physically similar to him, based on other clues, such as location, date, or people in the photo.

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A feature that isn’t 100% reliable yet, but is clearly going in the direction of the almost uniform identification of subjects on Google Photos, regardless of the angle at which they were taken.

On your end, have you noticed that Google recognizes your relatives from behind? Feel free to share with us in the comments what you like or don’t like about Google Photos.

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Android Authority