Google Purchases Facial-Recognition Software Firm
Google has purchased PittPatt, a company that manufactures facial-recognition software. The company started as a research project at the Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute. The name is coined from Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition. The software identifies facial structures in photographs and traces them in videos.
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Google has purchased PittPatt, a company that develops facial-recognition software. The company started as a research project at the Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute. The name is coined from Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition. The software identifies facial structures in photographs and traces them in videos.
As the PittPatt’s homepage states: “We’ve worked hard to advance the research and technology in many important ways and have seen our technology come to life in some very interesting products.
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