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July 23, 2011 03:37 am GMT

Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt

Google has just acquired facial recognition software company PittPatt (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), according to an announcement on the startup's site. PittPatt, a project spawned from Carnegie Mellon University, develops a facial recognition technology that can match people across photos, videos, and more. The company has created a number of algorithms in face detection, face tracking and face recognition. PittPatt's face detection and tracking SDK locates human faces in photographs and tracks the motion of human faces in video.

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