Polar Rose (facial recognition)
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Polar Rose is a company from Malmö
, Sweden which makes facial recognition
software.
Polar Rose had a service that allows users to name people in their photos on photo sharing sites like Flickr
and 23hq.com using their Facebook
contacts. Using their facial recognition
Polar Rose applies a good amount of auto-tagging for users.The service was discontinued on 6 September, 2010 only to be purchased two weeks later by Apple Inc. for approximately $22 million.
The Polar Rose website and related add-ons for Firefox and Internet Explorer
allowed users to put names to the faces of people whose photographs appear on the web, and to then find other pictures of the same individuals; however, as of May 20, 2009, use of the plugins was discontinued in favor of a purely web-based interface.
Search Wikia featured integration with Polar Rose.
Polar Rose founder Jan Erik Solem is company CTO while Danish serial entrepreneur Nikolaj Nyholm
is CEO.
Polar Rose was awarded a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award in 2008 and has won other awards like SIME's 2007 Best Technical Innovation and the Red Herring Global 100 list for 2007.
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
, Sweden which makes facial recognition
Facial recognition system
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source...
software.
Polar Rose had a service that allows users to name people in their photos on photo sharing sites like Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
and 23hq.com using their Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
contacts. Using their facial recognition
Facial recognition system
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source...
Polar Rose applies a good amount of auto-tagging for users.The service was discontinued on 6 September, 2010 only to be purchased two weeks later by Apple Inc. for approximately $22 million.
The Polar Rose website and related add-ons for Firefox and Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
allowed users to put names to the faces of people whose photographs appear on the web, and to then find other pictures of the same individuals; however, as of May 20, 2009, use of the plugins was discontinued in favor of a purely web-based interface.
Search Wikia featured integration with Polar Rose.
Polar Rose founder Jan Erik Solem is company CTO while Danish serial entrepreneur Nikolaj Nyholm
Nikolaj Nyholm
Nikolaj Nyholm, is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor from Copenhagen, Denmark. He has founded four technology startups that have pioneered different domains, is co-organizer of the lauded conference reboot.dk, and is now a partner at the early-stage venture capital investor, Sunstone...
is CEO.
Polar Rose was awarded a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award in 2008 and has won other awards like SIME's 2007 Best Technical Innovation and the Red Herring Global 100 list for 2007.