Some time ago I wrote a post about some things I would like to be able to do with Facial Recognition on the phone. One of those things was integrating an application with Facebook so that in theory I'd be able to point my camera-phone at some one and immediatly get information on who the person is based on the person's face being matched against a facebook profile. Last night I decided to do some looking around for facial recognition SDKs (developing my own would take to long). I found a couple that looked suitable.
One was Okao from Omron. This company has done a lot of work with AI and machine recognition and is the company behind the face recognition in Apple's iPhoto in iLife 09. They have a version of their face recognition software that will work on Windows Mobile phones but there is no trial version available. The other company I found was Neuto Technology. Unlike Omron they have a Windows Mobile SDK that will work for 30 days. The only component left would be something to look at Facebook Photographs. I'll have to build a solution for iterating through the photographs. But I'm sure most of the work of doing this will be reduced by making use of the Microsoft Facebook Developer Kit.
I am begining to think this idea is actually possible!
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