Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you
A new update for Google Home could make it less likely your smart home cameras mistake you for someone else, just because you're facing away from the camera. Starting June 23rd, Google's expanding its facial recognition feature so that people you've tagged in your Familiar Faces library can continue to be identified when their faces aren't clearly visible, using "additional non-biometric signals (body size, clothing color, etc.)." The Familiar Faces library will also begin aut
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Google's smart home AI is getting updated to identify people in camera footage even when their faces aren't clearly visible, by using additional signals like clothing color and body size. The system will also automatically update its library of tagged people with recent images to reduce incorrect notifications, and can now identify specific sounds like barking, alarms, or footsteps in video event descriptions. These improvements address previous issues where the system generated inaccurate notifications and descriptions of events that didn't occur.
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