I've written about Riya before, once as a skeptic, and once when it was the subject of yet another ficitional acquisition. Well it looks like it will prove its colors soon, as it is apparently approaching beta.
I look forward to giving it a spin (a promise to have an alpha look never came through). I have great hopes for this product, presuming that it lives up to the grand claims made about it.
One thing that revives my skepticism, though, is seeing the CEO of Riya provide the following update regarding the facial recognition:
"We've completely revamped the recognition and detection engines. Diem, Danny, and Vincent completely retrained our face detectors in a mere 45 days - an amazing feat."
When a company is hyped into the market based upon unprecedented facial recognition capabilities, the likes of which the industry has never seen (the facial recognition B.S. you've heard in the media and seen in fictional television shows is generally nonsense. Facial recognition in the real world is extremely primitive), and they just "revamp" it in 45 days?
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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.
Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.