
After reading about all the buzz and VC investment in Riya I decided to give it a try. Riya is (from TechCrunch):
"Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos that are building up on their hard drives (and on the web).
Riya also recognizes text in photos, and lets you select any area of a photo and tag that as well. For instance, you could select just the Eiffel Tower in a photo and tag it as such. Within moments, everything of importance in all of my photos was tagged. And more importantly, it was searchable."
I'm not going to give a summary of how the service works. Too many people have done that already and you can probably get a better idea from Mike Arrington.
Riya has been around for a while but it wasn't until the last couple of weeks that they started getting a lot of attention. The TWiTs as well as TalkCrunch put out podcasts about them in the last week.
They keep saying over and over that they don't want to be a photo hosting service like Flickr. Rather, they want to leverage upon their recognition-technology.
One feature they're working on implementing right now is the ability to export tags to Flickr. This is a pretty cool idea and I'll most likely really use Riya when they implement this. I don't want to have to upload my photos to both Riya and Flickr to use Riya's facial recognition. At the same time, Riya only supports uploading of 800x600 files so I'll continue using Flickr until something better is worked out.
The real gold mine, however, could be if they integrate into Facebook. Although they are pretty hyped right now, I can say as a college student that Facebook has a GREAT service. A couple of months ago they implemented a unique photo sharing service. The killer-feature of this is easy tagging of people within photos. Rather than using facial recognition, like Riya, they require users to tag the photos during the uploading process.
Facebook has made this so easy to do that most people uploading photos do it. The best part is that its free.
In practice, this means that I can click on a person's name and see all of the photos that have been tagged with their name. I can also see who they are in the photo itself.
I've posted some screenshots of this here.
Although Flickr seems like the best community to go after right now, it would be better for Riya to try out site integration with Facebook. This is an online community that already is comfortable with the idea of people-tagging and has a great set of training data. The Riya system can automatically parse out the metadata and have super-easy setup for Facebook users. Facebook can also be leveraged for improving the Riya system with a real-world data set.
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