Riya, the facial recognition start-up, raises $15 million
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Remember, this is the company that Google was supposedly flirting with for a possible purchase. But Google didn't bite, or didn't bite hard enough.
Perhaps the Riya product needs developing a bit more. Indeed, Peter Rip, venture capitalist at Leapfrog Ventures, and an existing backer of Riya, told us during the last barbecue at Michael Arrington's place, that the software still takes a while to recognize a face in a photo. You still have to feed the software quite a few photos of a person's face before it is recognized permanently, and thus recognizable by Riya in other photos.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/1019
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Matt,
Perhaps it would be constructive to mention that when Peter made those statements, the prduct was in very early Alpha. Products in very early Alpha by definition do not perform at optimal levels.
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Matt - I think what you said is accruate. Face recognition is hard technology to get right. We are going to use this to further improve and get our product into open alpha (so anyone can register) so we can continue to improve and learn faster from our users.
Munjal Shah on January 10, 2006 5:14 PMComment link
Matt:
When we spoke in November, I think I was referring to the inaccuracy of illegal federal wiretaps, not Riya's tech. As I recall now, not under oath, I think I said Riya's technology was perfect and their job was done. ;-)
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Peter Rip on January 10, 2006 8:49 PMComment link
