Me and the King of Pop

When I uploaded the photo below to Facebook, the face tagging software went into panic stricken overdrive, asking me to please identify and tag each and every face on the poster. You'd think someone would tell Facebook who The King of Pop is!

I wonder how Google's Picasa's new face recognition software would fare?   Would it know all the faces belonged to the same person?  That might be a challenge.  Not sure if allowance for plastic surgery is built into its complex algorithms.

I tested Picasa's face recognition the other day with my face and was absolutely bowled over by it's brilliance. I simply identified myself in one photo and the software retrieved and identified hundreds of photos of me from my photo collection, some going back 25 years!!! And in some of the photos, I was just a small speck in a crowd!!  I would have had trouble recognising myself in some of the photos!  It really was uncanny.

How long before CCTV cameras auto detect our whereabouts by matching us with our traffic licence photos and report them back to Big Brother? Minority Report, here we come!