You know how you can tell who someone is by just seeing the back of them, well the Google Photos face recognition feature can do that. Some tests have shown that this photo app pre-installed on Android devices doesn’t need to spot your face before it identifies you. Although this feature is pretty impressive, it might not tell a user’s identity from the back all the time.
Of course, the software might not be able to find certain cues it needs to identify users at all times. But, for the times it identifies users from the back, it does so impressively. This ability to identify users from the back has not been available on the Google Photos app for long.
The feature responsible for this happens to be a recent addition to the Google Photos app. While the Google Photos face recognition feature has been available for a while, identifying users without seeing their faces is new. Let’s now look at this impressive feature that can better organize your pictures into their folders.
The Google Photos face recognition feature can now tell users apart from the back
The Google Photos recognition feature helps users arrange photos into folders based on faces. It identifies and groups pictures containing a particular face into a folder. After the grouping, it then lets users name the folder and tags the name to the faces in each folder.
A recent update points out that this feature can function without spotting the user’s face. Yes, the Google Photos face recognition feature no longer needs to spot a user’s face before it, apart from other faces. The feature seeks cues that can point out a person in photos where their face isn’t visible to the camera.
How Google Photos can identify users in pictures without seeing their faces is a bit confusing. However, it is safe to say that in situations where the feature can’t spot a face, it resorts to seeking visible cues. These cues might include a hairstyle, a piece of clothing, and so on.
So if a person takes pictures (facing and not facing the camera) in the same hairstyle or dress, the Google Photos face recognition feature will identify them in all the pictures. This is a great feature as it can help properly organize photos into folders without leaving out those where the person’s face isn’t visible. Certainly, this new ability to identify people in photos without seeing their faces is a great addition to the Google Photos app.
Of course, this is a new feature and will group old photos where users’ faces didn’t show in their right folders. But, it is good to note that this feature might not function all the time, but when it does, it tends to be accurate. So run over to your Google Photos app and check if it can identify you in pictures where you aren’t facing the camera.