Windows Live Search Images now includes facial recognition filters

Posted on July 30, 2007 at 2:08 pm

Windows Live Search Images facial recognition filters are probably the coolest thing to be added to search since Google came along. It’s quite impressive and very addicting! The new filters allow you to search for a face, a portrait photo, or for black and white photos.

For example, here’s how a regular search for “Bill Gates” would look like without the filters:

As you can see, there are close ups, photos of him at conferences, caricatures, and group photos. Now if you search with the face filter as so: “bill gates” filter:face, you get the following:

As you can see, most of the photos are just of his face or fairly close to it as compared to the first set of results! Pretty neat! Now let’s see what pictures we get back for “bill gates” filter:portrait.  

This set definitely came back better than the face set. I guess the face filter could not find enough pictures of Bill’s face and that’s why there are some portraits in there, but the portrait  filter pretty much returned all portrait photos and no close-ups. Lastly, let’s try the black and white search filter and see what we get, “bill gates” filter:bw.

That worked fine also! One other nice feature is the list of related people on the right that automatically appears for quick searching.

I have to say that I am very impressed that Microsoft was able to beat out Google with cool search features like facial recognition! I guess the competition is heating up! Enjoy!

Source: Windows Live Search Blog

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