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Faces and Pets :( (it was worth a try)

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Xenious

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I thought perhaps the face recognition algorithm might work if I named my cats in a few pictures, but so far it has not. Would be cool if they updated it to work on cats and dogs. ahahhaha :)
 
hahaha, I'm with you on this one. Me and a friend were literally just talking about this when I saw this post. Glad there is at least 3 of us that would like this feature!
 
Lol, the possibilities, I can just imagine the nerds in some basement somewhere celebrating when getting the contract to write that software.
 
I tried, but it does not work.
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Not sure which of the subjects of this thread you tried it on :p but I would imagine that the algorithms used are very specific to human faces and even then seem to be having a bit of trouble with those. Perhaps in future it will become smarter and more adaptive :p
 
What kind of cats do you have, what are their facial features? I have a black and white cat with a distinct "bandit mask" over his eyes, but my other cat is a solid grey. I dont have iLife yet but I would bet that it could tell the difference between the two. Easier than say 2 similar colored cats.
 
Supermacguy said:
What kind of cats do you have, what are their facial features? I have a black and white cat with a distinct "bandit mask" over his eyes, but my other cat is a solid grey. I dont have iLife yet but I would bet that it could tell the difference between the two. Easier than say 2 similar colored cats.
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iLife cant tell the difference between a man and woman. It also suggests sculptures! The new iPhoto is just as good as the previous one. Faces & Places don't work as advertised
 
All the photos I had taken of a party I was at, all the ones which had people in multiple photos (with their full faces), iPhoto recognised. The only times it didn't recognise anybody was when they'd tried to semi-drunkenly tried to hide.

And it recognised my dog and two cats.
 
It's not working for my cat (russian blue), or my dog (mini dachshund):(. I was hoping that it would. Oh well, maybe Apple will work on this (I hope they do, most of my pictures are of my pets).

Don
 
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