Research team develops face-mapping app for global smartphone searching
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rice University have developed a smartphone app that appears both clever and interesting, but may never actually be used by anyone anyway. Its an app that when combined with a centralized server, combs peoples cell phones looking to find photos that have a face in them that match what someone is looking for. The team describes how their application would work in a paper theyve uploaded to the preprint server arXiv.
