Polar Rose Screenshot: Flickr

Polar Rose detects an untagged face. While Polar Rose suggests matching faces, from this and other sites, the user enters the name of the individual appearing and presses the "Save" button.

At that moment the rose turns from orange to red and everybody else running the Polar Rose will see the line "one person thinks this is Jan Erik Solem" in their drop down.

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ing.edmundo says:

How do I use polar rose? how can I install it?
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Hookham.Fotography says:

how do i get it?
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

kosso says:

yes, how did you manage to do this? or has this been mocked up? thx
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Fokket says:

You have my attention... :)
I've signed up for Beta testing. I would love to use this for organizing my local photos as well.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

zeus almighty says:

Sounds great, but what about privacy issues? I mean, using this software, in theory, someone could find out the name of someone in a photo. Even worse they could discover the names of other people in the photo, discovering the connections between all these people, then using that information to obtain even more "clues" about the person they are searching for. There are a lot of photos that already contain information about the faces contained in them, but there are even more anonymous photos on the web, hoping to remain as such!
In theory, you're creating your own user-generated photo ID database for the world to see. Is that ethically even remotely correct?
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

mlok21 says:

very cool stuff. The first cool thing on the internet was Google. This is going to be the 2nd. Congrats.
I have signed up for beta testing.
Very excited about it!!!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

sMoRTy71 says:

Zeus, pipe down, will ya? If someone posts a photo on the web for anyone to see, there should be no expectation of privacy.

There are a lot of scary things you can come up with "in theory." However, in reality, no one really cares that much about who might be in your photos.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

nikolajn says:

Edmundo and T: We're not out of private beta yet, but if you sign up at www.polarrose.com, we'll notify you when we go live.

kosso: It's a screenshot of the Polar Rose plug-in which has detected more pictures of Jan Erik, here on Flickr and elsewhere. See more at the Polar Rose site (listed above).

zeus_almighty: We're conscious about privacy. But as sMoRTy71 highlights, photos which you want private are better off made private, not by obscurity. I have blogged more on this subject at blog.polarrose.com/2006/12/on-privacy-and-pol ar-rose/.

And everyone else: Thanks for your support. We're really looking forward to sharing this with you! :)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

bdo747@yahoo.com says:

myth buster? is there really a twin for everyone out there? we may be closer then ever finding out thanks to polar rose.........
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

ana_prestes says:

massa!!

será bem util para internautas!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

ana_prestes says:

Será mais facil encontrar imagens??
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

socrtwo says:

Imagine Polarrose identifying anything in the picture that can be identified not just faces, but artists, landmarks, animal species, car models etc. A full fledged identification engine:

web.archive.org/web/20050208223745/www.should exist.org/st...

Perhaps you could tell it to identify the 5 biggest thing in the picture, or draw a selection circle around what you want it to identify.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Kelvin Owers says:

Zeus, pipe down, will ya? If someone posts a photo on the web for anyone to see, there should be no expectation of privacy.

The photographer may be happy for the photo to be public, but what of the subject? What about their privacy when they haven't explicitly been asked if it's okay to post a photo of them? It's one thing for your image to appear on the web, but another for it to result in anyone being able to know who you are and when you were where. Will there be a way for people to 'opt-out' of the Polar Rose database?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

kriketon says:

What a great photo, love it man.

Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

seducer89 says:

How do you get the polar rose. Message me please.
Mind Power
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

laila lim says:

this is great. thanks for sharing.

regards from
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

faad90 says:

thumbs up!

cheers from photographic-memory[dot]org
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

elionmakkink says:

I've installed it, really nice!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

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