Google Photos now suggesting names when no face visible

It may not exactly be back-of-the-head recognition, or male-pattern-baldness biometrics, but Google Photos appears to have developed a way to suggest who a person is in a photo of them that shows the back of their head, rather than their face, according to Android Authority.

The app has long used facial recognition for tagging photos with the names of those in them, but the new feature shows accuracy estimated by Android Authority at around 80 to 85 percent at …

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