Tagging Facial Content

Have been involved with the whole concept of tagging photos of late. Walter Mossberg has posted an article on updates to photo service Picasa that allow you to recognize and tag photos that have facial images, plus other changes. The general problem of image tagging is unsolved.

" ... There’s no way to completely turn name-tagging over to Picasa; you must manually assign a name to each face. But this discovery process grows smarter the more it is used, returning accurate, selectable name-tag suggestions below each photograph. A People page lists all the people whose faces appeared in uploaded photos, and I started relying on this as a quick reference tool. A photo name tag can include a nickname, full name and email. If someone is already listed in your Gmail contacts, these data are automatically retrieved and entered as you begin typing a name ... '