Applied Recognition Launches FotoTiger for the Holiday Season

TORONTO, Dec. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Recognition Inc. is pleased to announce the release of FotoTiger for sharing that automates the tagging and sharing of photos for Android phones.

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When you think about the five W's of photos, one is missing.  You have where (GPS), when (date and time), why (combination of when and where) and what (it's an image). But you don't have WHO! And this is what we do. We "Do the Who" for photos. And, when you "Do the Who" and users connect with their address book, photo sharing becomes easy.

How many times have you asked a friend for a copy of a photo only to wait in vain for it to arrive?  FotoTiger provides a real solution by connecting photos of your family and friends with the preferred email, phone or sharing app in your address book, so that sharing can be done quickly with just a simple button click. 

Last month, we released FotoTiger for Facebook to automate the tagging and posting of photos to Facebook timelines.  With this new version of FotoTiger, tagging and sharing is private.  FotoTiger's face recognition indexes photos right on your phone. User privacy is protected by keeping all face recognition data local to the phone and under complete control of the user.  Simply put, it is done in the privacy of your phone. 

It is approximated that by the end of 2014, Facebook will hold 370 billion photos.  Seems like a lot? Divide this number by the 1.35 billion Facebook users and that works out to only 271 photos per person over one's entire lifespan with Facebook. According to BGE media there were nearly 1 trillion photos taken in just 2013 alone. The reality is that most photos are stored in private and are shared privately with email or text as the primary transfer methods. And, this is what FotoTiger focuses on. Private automated photo sorting and sharing.

Applied Recognition's technology is adapted for optimum performance on mobile devices.  This includes sub-second response time for image scanning – regardless of pixel density.  Face signatures are tiny allowing for on-device storage of tens-of-thousands of known faces.  Entire photo libraries with multi-gigabytes of images can be managed on a smartphone with or without network service.

To give it a try go to Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appliedrec.fototiger

About Applied Recognition

Applied Recognition Inc. develops face recognition technology for a variety of consumer applications. Quite simply, we "Do the Who" for photos. Our talented team has created innovative Mobile, PC and Cloud Storage products that automatically index photos according to the people in the photos. Our unique and smart indexing system opens up a host of opportunities that were never before possible. For instance, the creation of a family photo archive organized as a family tree or photo reminiscence therapy for people with Alzheimer's disease. Whenever there is a gathering of people at work or leisure, photos play an important role in capturing moments and creating memories. With our user-friendly products and advanced technologies, we make the task of organizing and sharing thousands-of-photos based on the important people in them – effortless.

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