Baidu magic map: Baidu collect personal images of users an excellent way

In the past few days, PK has been popping up in WeChat's circle of friends with its own photos and celebrity faces through Baidu Magic Pictures, and everyone has enjoyed themselves.

This project is in November 2011, Baidu $ 10 million acquisition of Innovative Workshop's mobile phone photo processing and sharing software "magic wizard", the product, technology and team are integrated into Baidu, and then continue to improve.

But some people poured cold water - the first financial editor Wang Zheng reminded in his WeChat that his friends no longer upload photos, and he worried that this is Baidu for their face recognition, face search to collect data. He said:

I have tried two non-entertainment celebrity photos, among them there is a foreigner, there is no match in the celebrity face, but in the following recommendation column, is the general public photos, but found themselves!

Once the establishment of a personal facial recognition database Baidu, linked with the phone number, unit and other information, what will happen? For example, after you hit the car with others in the sky, the other hand Yang photo shoot, you can search you. For example, some people take pictures of you subway, you can be your microblogging, WeChat, others with your photo, circle of friends, your past life track full search out. As long as it is willing.

Wang Zheng's fears make sense, but just think of how many other websites you've used to logging in with Weibo accounts, and how many personal data you have drunk on Renren, Kaixin, Weibo and QQ. Baidu is only doing today, there is no starting advantage.

Besides, Baidu is not just done today. Sina science and technology early this article said:

Two years ago, Robin Li made a judgment on the future of the map. In the last year's KDD conference, among the nine major technical challenges to be solved by Robin Li, the content-based image search technology was listed in the third place. At the realistic level, Baidu's picture Related products, cloud albums and so on have this technology needs.

December 2012 Baidu image search for revision and feature upgrades, in the search logo added a new face recognition feature, if the use of face image search to find similar face images. At that time, Baidu said that face search was the last project launched by Baidu Multimedia in 2012 and was the first image-based face search in the world. At that time, Baidu stressed that face search will only be conducted within the scope of the public information, closed personal album will not be touched.

However, as Wang Zheng said, the actual use of face recognition search, the same face accumulated more data, the more match in the comparison to provide better support. Therefore, we can confirm that Baidu magic figure of this play, indeed helps Baidu save the user's personal picture data. - But those who use PS hard enough girl, you do not have to worry about.