TAT Recognizr identifies faces in mobile phone augmented reality app

Swedish company The Amazing Tribe (TAT) has developed an Android smart phone app, called Recognizr, that identifies a person when the phone's camera is pointed at them. Using face recognition software developed by another Swedish company, Polar Rose, the augmented reality app displays information about the person superimposed near the image of that person. Only users who have opted into the system and provided a face image and profile are identified by the system. The work was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. More information is available in an MIT Technology Review article. A previous Computer Vision Central article on Polar Rose is available here.