The Bing and Microsoft Research teams have been investing in computer vision and face recognition technologies for many years. Recently we made some of these technologies available via Project Oxford, and in the #HowOldRobot demo site.
Seeing how much fun people had with #HowOldRobot, a small group of Bing engineers spent the last few days using Project Oxford to make the robot available in the new Bing Image Search. We’re rolling the feature out over the next week, so when you see the Robot, you can have it analyze any image search result with one click.
This is one more example of putting computer vision and image understanding to work to increase the richness of Bing’s Image Graph and help our Bing users be inspired, learn more and do more with images.
Try it out using image searches with faces with Bing on your PC. This is cutting-edge image understanding tech that improves every day so please don’t take the results personally. 