As a result it's getting a lot of interest as a tool for investigative journalism. This tutorial by Bellingcat is really interesting: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...
Bing definitely uses facial recognition: faces of celebrities are detected, there is a bounding box around the face, and their name and a link to Wikipedia. It does so for clothes as well.
Here is an example (fully automatic):
- the two faces: https://i.imgur.com/bfVNvW6.png
Here is another example, where clothes and items are automatically found in the image, and a bounding box is automatically defined:
- the necklace: https://i.imgur.com/vfhvY0T.jpg - the suit: https://i.imgur.com/AqS3qBV.jpg - the other suit: https://i.imgur.com/jTgRwpb.png
However, for the faces in this second example, I have to draw the box myself:
- the face: https://i.imgur.com/Pe1RLLm.jpg - the other face: https://i.imgur.com/LHOOwnW.jpg
So, what do you mean? What makes Yandex special with respect to facial recognition?
I found it how it was ridiculously good at finding car number plates, airplane numbers, and even yachts! https://www.google.com/search?q=рпв+2396&tbm=isch
In 2017 they did something to it, and it is now nowhere near as easy to find people's cars now.
Interesting! It finds this ad listing where there is a photo of a boat with exactly this registration number _in the background_ (the ad itself is for a RIB, or "Rigid Inflatable Boat" in front of it):
https://www.avito.ru/arhangelsk/vodnyy_transport/lodka_rib_s...
As far as I can tell the number doesn't appear anywhere in text form, so it must be OCR indeed.