We're a Phoenix startup doing face search and recognition. We just released Mugr on Monday and would love to hear any feedback you have.
According to the FAQ, you're not performing face detection (you ask users to crop their photos). Did you find that the process was too computationally expensive?
EDIT - after completing the registration process I was given an error page. But the process must've completed, since I can log in and use the site just fine.
I have some additional comments (for instance, when cropping my user photo it'd be nice to see an example of a "good crop" so I know how tightly to focus the box around my face, without having to click through to the guidelines page). Is there an email address I can contact you at?
Thanks for the suggestions. For my email address, check out my news.ycomb profile.
While I've got you here, I'll just my initial reactions:
- 100KB photo limit is waaay too small. Restrict image dimensions, if anything.
- Error messages on the side of the page (on the mugshots upload page) are not very visble
- What kind of things would I put in the "tags" box? Are they comma or space delimited?
- "The person may be from the orient, but they aren't oriented toward the camera." - This joke is in poor taste...
- Connections page is empty?
- I don't really know what to do after I've registered...
- Problem with links (I see http://http:// -- you gotta standardize your inputs!)
- I uploaded a photo to search, and am returned all users in the network? This page is confusing!
- In order to limit the number of returned users I cropped just my face and uploaded the photo for search. It seems like I was returned everyone but myself!
One of the reasons we're doing a limited beta is to give us time to find and work out stuff like this. Also, it takes a little while for your profile images to get indexed. Thanks for being patient with us.