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Google’s Picasa 3 transcended private beta stage with a special update that enables it to perform facial recognition. Now in public beta, Picasa 3 also employs a new tool called “name tags.”

“Name tags” is a special tool on Picasa that is based on a 2006 technology that the big G got from biometric specialist Neven Vision.

Product Manager at Google Mike Horowitz explained that name tags “gives you the power to quickly label and organize your photos based on who’s in each picture.”

The new Picasa 3 features astounding capability such as the “clustering.” True to the term, the features allow users to virtually cluster or group together pictures without the need to put tags to individual photos. This can be done by simply identifying a few photos. After this, Picasa Web Albums will be able to identify the other photos based solely on the similarities of facial features of the subjects.

Horowitz also stressed that Picasa 3 desktop photo organizing software is is designed to work more seamlessly with Web Albums. “New controls in Picasa 3 make it much easier to quickly upload photos, and we’ve added a new ’sync to Web’ feature that automatically updates online albums when you add or edit photos on your computer,” he added.

The big G’s Picasa 3 also boasts friendly features like new image editing tools, movie making, photo watermarking, printing captions and photo imports from webcam captures and screen grabs.

Source: BetaNews

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