Google Photos asks users for help to improve recognition
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The grouping of Google Photos by facial recognition is one of the most impressive features of the service. With this feature you can not only see all your photos or those of your pet, it is even possible to specify that the application shows you your photos somewhere in the world and even your photos with your pet. What began as an experiment now allows us to search through thousands of photos and find everything the first time. You must have Google Photos backup turned on for this feature to work.
Google, despite everything, knows that its algorithms are not infallible and there are still many cases in which it is not able to identify certain faces or people , or even tends to mix photos of several people into one. Google knows this and for this it has launched a new option that asks users to help them with this task. It is a feature that we have already seen a little over a month ago in the application, although only in a small number of users.
How to improve facial recognition in Google Photos?
To enter this section you must go to Google Photos and access one of the different filters, for example, People and pets. You will see a new Pop-Up asking if you want to help improve the results.You can choose between 3 options (same, different or I'm not sure). With this answer you will help the algorithm to differentiate people as we can see in Android Police.
Note that if you use this hint you will see the images in full screen and you can choose if they are the same or not. With this small gesture you help Google improve its facial recognition by asking you whether or not the images displayed are the same people. For some time the application also allows us to do the same with other images such as animals, cars, and all kinds of things.
We've seen this feature over a month ago in the app, so it's not "all new". Despite this, this feature goes further than the previous one and instead of asking us for an opinion, it wants to help the algorithm to separate and differentiate faces that it believes are exactly the same personThe cameras are not perfect and in certain situations it can be difficult even for ourselves.
