Google Photos can now tag people even if they’re not facing the camera: Report

It looks like Google has added more capability to its already impressive photo recognition capabilities. This feature comes in handy when tagging people in captured photos and Google’s Photos app is usually spot on when it comes to doing this. Google Photos has introduced a new trick to recognize people (on the server end) even if they are not facing the camera when the image is captured. This seems to work quite effectively, but there is a problem. Additionally, Google has also started adding a new cinematic photo effect to Photos which was previously an automatic feature.

The feature was discovered by Android Authority’s Rita El Khouri when she started getting suggestions for her husband’s photos in the Photos app. Their findings revealed that Google Photos managed to figure out that it was her husband based on the back of her head. This applies not only to newly uploaded photos, but also to photos that may have been captured years ago and stored on the user’s Google Photos backup.

Photos doesn’t allow users to manually tag people whose faces aren’t in front of the camera, and this often means they have to manually move them to the Holidays or Travels folder so these can be easily found. Can be found. Khoury suggests that Google Photos is actually creating a model of a person’s face, taken from various photos and videos in a given library.

Or it could also be a case where Google is putting it all together using location data or a scene and confirming that the person in the photo is the same person facing the other camera using its machine learning skills. doing.

Even if it is not capable of doing so. It’s definitely impressive! Users are beginning to see old photos accurately tagged, even if the person’s face is not visible in them. And if the photo is uncertain, it will prompt the user to manually tag the person, which is also good, because previously it was not possible to tag such images.

Another new photo feature spotted by Android Police is the ability to add fake cinematic effects to regular photos. While the cinematic effect of slowly zooming in on a photo has been available in Google’s Photos app for some time, users used to only be sent suggestions or recommendations based on photos that were automatically selected by the app.

The source reports that the new cinematic photo effect is rolling out as a server-side update and is rolling out to users in the Photos app. The Cinematic Photo effect can be found in the Utilities tab under the Create New section in the Library tab.