TECH CRUNCH -- Oct 12 -- Eyealike, the startup that lets you use photo recognition to help find your ideal mate, is expanding to apply its image processing technology to a new market: advertising. The company says that the new system will allow businesses to place highly targeted advertising alongside photographs that appear on their site. The company is also in early stages of identifying company logos in photographs. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
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Eyealike Sets Its Image Recognition Technology On Advertising
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Online Dating's New Face
INTERNET NEWS -- June 26 -- Facial recognition technology could help the lovelorn find a better match. Eyealike offers facial recognition systems for enterprises customers and online dating and social network sites. The idea is, users will be able to upload an image, or even choose from a selection of celebrity faces, and click on screen levers to adjust that image to their personal tastes. Mark Brooks, a consultant to the online dating industry, said facial recognition is the latest in series of technical advances with more to follow. He notes the advent of online "speed dating" sites like WooMe and ratings sites like Hot or Not. There are also already sites like MyDouble if you want to just see what celebrities you most resemble and perhaps use that info in a dating profile. Brooks agrees, the facial recognition and editing is better-suited to would be casual daters. "A site like eHarmony is slow to let users share photographs because it's more about getting to know the other person," he said. "A lot of this is about trying to fix the real world which is broken. In the real world, you see pretty girls and hunky men on magazine covers who are largely unattainable." FULL ARTICLE @ INTERNET NEWS
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Physical Attraction Matters
MARKETWIRE -- June 26 -- Eyealike, a visual-based search platform provider, revealed new Attraction Trait Levers for Eyealike Faces, an image-to-image search solution for facial recognition and similarity matching. "Having a physical connection with someone is one of the most important components of a relationship, yet a huge percentage of first dates never turn into second dates due to a lack of mutual attraction," says Mark Brooks a consultant to the online dating industry. "We can help daters quickly find people they are attracted to, whether it's someone who looks like their favorite movie star or anyone else they find attractive", said Greg Heuss, president of Eyealike.
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