Polar Rose Blog – A blog about sharing photos & other stuff that matters to us
Plugin, we’ll miss you!
Today we disabled the beta plugin, as was mentioned in the mail we sent to all users of our old beta site.
It has served us well, by detecting people in more than 68 million photos, and naming well over 380.000 of them! Through that we’ve managed to improve our face detection and matching algorithms and made the current Polar Rose website a reality.
The search engine part of the beta site, as well as people’s personal collections are going to stay up for the time being, but without the plugin there will not be any way of adding new names.
We’ve put up an F.A.Q. for beta users here, which also covers things like how to un-install the plugin.
Duplicates, statistics & flag as bug…
Today we released some new features to the Polar Rose website and plugin – detection of duplicate images, statistics and a new functionality in the plugin to make it easier to notify us about bugs.
Duplicates
Duplicate detection means that multiple versions of the same image are grouped together – making it easier for you to get an overview of results for a particular person.
Simply click the link shown above an image that has duplicates and you will open a page showing all the duplicates – even if some images have been cropped, scaled or had other modifications made to them they will still be shown on this page.
When you browse the page of duplicates of an image you can also see all the different websites that the image has be found at.
Statistics
Under the search field on the Polar Rose home page there are now links to pages that show the most popular searches, most named people and the top users on Polar Rose.
Flag as bug
The Polar Rose plugin now includes a checkbox which allows you to quickly and easily flag bugs (roses that appear on things other than faces). Doing this helps us to improve our face recognition and show better results when you search on the Polar Rose website.
Need for speed!
We will never rest till our good is better and our better best!
We have just released an update to our plugin user interface with several performance improvements. We still believe we can be faster. We love speed so please stay tuned!
