Ed, It is on the computer but it is the iPhoto program itself for Mac OS X.
The way this works is that when the new version/upgrade of iPhoto is opened, it will take several minutes to half an hour or so (maybe an hour) for the program to go through all of the photos and auto recognize and catalog faces and shapes.
After that, the user will click on a photo of people or of an individual. The program will put a block around the face or faces. Under it will pop up "Type a name". Then, clicking on "go" it will bring up other pictures similar. And often it will bring up someone with the same facial characteristics. It is easy to click off the ones that are not the individual in the search. Sometimes if a person is facing slightly away or looking down or up, or making a face like kids will do (and adults) it will ask "Is this ?" Next click "yes or no".
It then builds a catalog of people with the name. In some cases, the same person's name will have to be entered several times for all of the different angle and poses. But that is quick and easy as compared to entering for every single picture. It is good at grouping pictures of the same person - whether they are in an individual picture or group picture. The program is a little more "inclusive" than "exclusive", IMO, to the point that it occasionally will bring into the group of photos - a few people with similar features that are not the correct person. This is better than leaving some key photos out.
What is interesting is doing this with twins. We have identical twin grandsons with one having a slight lazy eye. In direct frontal photos, it is correct about 60% of the time in separating which is which.
I apologize for not seeing your question until now.
The way this works is that when the new version/upgrade of iPhoto is opened, it will take several minutes to half an hour or so (maybe an hour) for the program to go through all of the photos and auto recognize and catalog faces and shapes.
After that, the user will click on a photo of people or of an individual. The program will put a block around the face or faces. Under it will pop up "Type a name". Then, clicking on "go" it will bring up other pictures similar. And often it will bring up someone with the same facial characteristics. It is easy to click off the ones that are not the individual in the search. Sometimes if a person is facing slightly away or looking down or up, or making a face like kids will do (and adults) it will ask "Is this ?" Next click "yes or no".
It then builds a catalog of people with the name. In some cases, the same person's name will have to be entered several times for all of the different angle and poses. But that is quick and easy as compared to entering for every single picture. It is good at grouping pictures of the same person - whether they are in an individual picture or group picture. The program is a little more "inclusive" than "exclusive", IMO, to the point that it occasionally will bring into the group of photos - a few people with similar features that are not the correct person. This is better than leaving some key photos out.
What is interesting is doing this with twins. We have identical twin grandsons with one having a slight lazy eye. In direct frontal photos, it is correct about 60% of the time in separating which is which.
I apologize for not seeing your question until now.
Thanks, Hank. I'll keep an eye out for it. It looks like a God send.
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