Polygram replaces "likes" with facial recognition

Polygram is a new photo-based social network , which measures participants' responses using artificial intelligence to recognize facial expressions.The new social network, which is only available for IOS, shows users react their followers to their photos, by using the facial recognition technology.

The different expressions of users are identified through the front camera of the smartphone.In this way, you can know how many people liked a photo or what the different reactions of the followers were from their real expressions.

polygram and user privacy

Subsequently, Polygram offers a report of the answers with the number of views, the time spent by the fans contemplating the image and even if they took a screenshot. These data, which also they include gender or location, they are offered in an aggregate, not individualized way, to protect the privacy of users.

Polygram also includes filters similar to those of other applications such as Snapchat and beauty masks that were designed by plastic specialists, according to the developers.

facial recognition technology

Facial recognition technology is spreading rapidly for uses as diverse as online payments, security, advertising or mobile unlocking. In Spain, for example, BBVA was Spain's first financial institution that launched the service of 'Immediate High' from the mobile, with which anyone can become a customer, open an account in just a few minutes and start operating instantly.The new service is based on an innovative identity verification procedure of the client through biometric recognition (with a selfie ) and a videoconference call.

To verify your identity, the new remote registration service requests a photo of the ID and a photo or selfie of the user.This way, the coincidence of both images is compared using an innovative process biometric recognition.Last step, a BBVA manager personally contacts the user to confirm their identity through a videoconference.

Facial recognition and toilet paper

But the uses can be as surprising as that of the baths of the Temple of Heaven park, in Beijing, where sanitary paper dispensers equipped with software facial recognition services have been installed in the services, for prevent theft.Users should remain standing in front of a high definition camera for three seconds -without glasses or a hat-before receiving their ration of 60 centimeters of white hygienic tissue., visitors must wait another nine minutes to remove a new portion or, if they have an emergency, negotiate it with the bathroom staff.Those who come very often, the machine will deny their request.

"We believe that this is the only way to avoid wasting toilet paper. If we meet visitors who are indisposed or have another situation in which they urgently need it, our staff will provide it directly to you " , a spokesman for the park told the newspaper Beijing Wanbao .