Google announced they acquired Neven Vision to help on image object recognition technology for products like Picasa photo management. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a web album application which automatically labels images by recognizing persons, objects and places? Or imagine Google Images searching not just for keywords contained in the HTML page… but also for keywords extracted from images themselves.

Neven Vision has patents on technology ranging from photo analysis to face recognition in video files to several patents for facial capture for avatar animation. Sounds like a fascinating partnership. Neven Vision appears to be the trade name of Nevenenginering, Inc., which has been assigned a number of patents by the United States Patent Office. According to the Neven Vision web site, they have a number of offerings based upon the use of mobile technology:

• Image-driven mobile marketing services
• Visual mobile search
• Comparison shopping and m-commerce
• Enhanced photo messaging
• Secure data access
• Field identity verification.

From the Google blog, the technology from Neven Vision will be useful in helping the Picassa team in extracting information from a photo, which could make it easier to organize and search through photographs.

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