1Castera also wonders if Riya might be useful for paternity tests.
2Subscribers upload photos, and then tell the Riya software who the person is.
3Riya also uses text recognition to read street signs and other text in photos.
4Riya also relies on meta tags, but uses facial-recognition software to create them automatically.
5I think of Amie, rewoven as Riya, and wonder who Jost's daughter has become.
6Riya plans to make the images and metadata exportable to "any application."
7Riya, the company behind Like, has previous experience in this area and Like looks promising.
8Then she was Riya, a little girl rewoven into another family, and now she is here-Amieagain.
9Riya helps its users to tag their photos in a way that services like Flickr and Shutterfly cannot.
10But Riya is banking on the software being good enough to pick out your grandmother in your holiday photos.
11It's better if Amie doesn't remember Riya and the men who dragged her from the tunnel under our house.
12Riya has developed software that can automatically recognize who is in a picture and tag it with their names.
13Riya users train the software, which requires a downloadable Windows client, by identifying, or tagging, individuals in their photos.
14"Her name is Riya," the woman informs me, her voice full of warning.
15"My name is Riya," Amie repeats, mimicking the woman's warning.
16"Ta' rafi el-a' riya?-Doyou speak Arabic?"