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 Google Buys Neven Vision 
By: Nathan Weinberg 2006-08-16 Google has acquired Neven Vision, a company that does photo recognition. While Neven Vision's background... ...is in recognizing faces for biometrics, Google plans to use it to improve Picasa. Link: Google has acquired Neven Vision Imagine if the first version of Picasa with this technology can recognize familiar objects in your photos, and let you tag people so they will be recognized in all your future photos. Could be interesting if the tech could be used in Google Images, as well. Liz Gannes says: Neven Vision has offices in Japan, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Germany, as well as 19 families of patents, so this can't have been chump change. Investors include Anthem Venture Partners and Zone Ventures.Check out all the other coverage on Techmeme. Tag: Google, Neven Vision Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Yahoo! My Web |  FurlView All Articles by Nathan Weinberg About the Author: Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines. Visit the InsideGoogle blog. |
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