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maclife.com - 1/28/2009

iPhoto's Faces Recognizes Cats

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A huge disappointment for pet owners, was word that iPhoto's newest feature, Faces, wouldn't recognize animals according to Apple employees on the show floor. We even did a few tests at Macworld Expo with images they had of the dog Luce. Well, we are happy to say that we were able to get ...

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i.gizmodo.com - 1/28/2009

iPhoto's Facial Recognition Feature Works on Cats [IPhoto]

— i.gizmodo.com — Apple recently showed off their new iPhoto's facial recognition feature , but said it only can recognize... human faces, not animals. MacLIfe tested it out and proved Apple wrong: iPhoto can tell kitties apart. [ MacLife ] (more) iPhoto's Facial Recognition Feature Works on Cats [IPhoto]

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 1/28/2009

iPhoto 09 recognizes faces... even cats' - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — 0127_lola_3_1000.jpg I don't know why it surprised me, but one of the best things about upgrading to... a new unibody MacBook Pro was finding a new version of iPhoto installed on the machine. Oh, sure, I knew I could have technically upgraded iPhoto at ... (more) iPhoto 09 recognizes faces... even cats' - Boing Boing ...

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iPhoto's Facial Recognition Feature Works on Cats [IPhoto]
Gizmodo — ... , but said it only can recognize human faces, not animals. MacLIfe tested it out and proved Apple wrong: iPhoto can tell kitties apart. [MacLife] ...

TUAW Review: iPhoto '09 is a pretty picture
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... and it displays all the other faces that match. The technology is not perfect. It didn't get all the matches right, but when it was wrong I'd have to admit the person it found had a similar face. To try and trick it, I showed it a picture of a parrot. Although there were many similar shots of the same parrot, iPhoto utterly failed to match any of them. I think Faces wants human faces (although there are examples of penguins being recognized, and Mac|Life has tested it out successfully on feline faces). Check out the gallery for some close ups of ...

iPhoto 09 recognizes faces... even cats'
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... technology, which automatically searches your photos for faces, asks you to identify each one once and then easily bring up any past or future photos that feature a certain visage, no matter how dollsome or hideous. It sounded pretty neat, but this is even better: it also works on felines. I imagine a great project here: drag in every LOLCat photo on the Internet and finally compile a definitive "Who's Who" off quasi-illiterate, cheeseburger loving doofus cats. iPhoto's Faces recognizes cats [Maclife]

iPhoto’s Faces also knows how to handle the cats
The Next Web — ... The service allegedly works ok, although iPhoto sometimes recognizes random round objects as your grandfather. Anyhow, Faces will get a PR boost by a post on MacLife. The thing is, Faces recognizes cats! ...

Apple's iPhoto Recognizes Cats' Faces, Too!
The Raw Feed — Apple's iPhoto picture management application has a face-recognition feature, which learns to identify individuals in photos so you can, say, search for "Janet" and have all the pictures of Janet come up in the search. But Mac | Life's Roberto Baldwin found that iPhoto recognizes the faces of cats, too!

Apple iPhoto can differentiate between cats
SlashGear — ... When Apple’s Phil Schiller told us that the company had picked the best facial recognition software they could find for the newest version of iPhoto, he obviously wasn’t kidding.  Despite claims from the Apple representatives back at Macworld that iPhoto wouldn’t recognize pets, ...

Apple iPhoto '09's Faces tagging feature recognizes cats
Obsessable News Feed — ... Pretty neat, yeah? Well, it took about 24 hours for someone to realize that it also recognizes cats! There's an article on how to get it to do so consistently over at MacLife. As with human faces, it's not perfect. Sometimes it will be wrong, but word is that it's surprisingly consistent. MacLife promises to try dogs soon. So there you go, animal lovers. Technology works for you, too. ...

Apple’s iLife ‘09: Reviews From Around the Web
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Maclife’s Roberto Baldwin has managed to get iPhoto’s new face recognition to work on animals, cats specifically. “Once a base face is established, iPhoto begins finding the person, or animal, on its own. At that point, you just need to confirm the animals face in the Faces’ “Confirm Name” menu.” However, not all impressions of the new facial recognition feature are that great. Some readers in the MacRumors forums are ...

Facial recognition face-off: Three tools compared
Webware.com — ... Also impressive was that all three pieces of software did not pull up photos of the pets that were included in some of the photos from our batch of test shots, as well as from an auxillary test done with 20 photos of the same cat. Blog MacLife had a different experience--at least for iPhoto, and was able to get the software to discern between two cats. ...