Google Goggles, the new search tool from Google
Google Goggles is a new form of a search tool that offers web surfers to search by uploading pictures. The tool is developed keeping in mind with the Android based cell phones.
Google Goggles allows users to submit pictures rather than key words as queries, which would allow for identification of images taken via cell phones.
“It is our goal to be able to identify any image,” said Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra. “It represents our earliest efforts in the field of computer vision. You can take a picture of an item, use that picture of whatever you take as the query.”
“For this product, we made the decision not to do facial recognition,” Gundotra said. “We still want to work on the issues of user opt-in and control. We have the technology to do the underlying face recognition, but we decided to delay that until safeguards are in place.”
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