7 Billion Scanned Photos Later, Face.com Opens Up To Developers

Facial recognition technology startup Face.com  publicly launched  at last year’s Techonomy event in Tel Aviv, Israel. Today thus marks an excellent time for them to make some announcements, as it is the evening prior to Techonomy 2010, which I’m attending.

The company is today publicly launching a developer community and open API, providing third-party developers access to their facial recognition technology, including the algorithm that powers their Facebook applications Photo Finder and Photo Tagger.

The former app saw one hell of a kick-off, tagging up to 400 million photos in its first month. A year later, Face.com’s Facebook apps have scanned over 7 billion photos in total and identified no less than 52 million faces.

Read more: Techcrunch
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