Smart glasses linking real live and social network's contacts by face recognition

Imagine you participate in a big meeting with several people remotely known to you. You remember their faces but not their names. This is where "Smart Glasses" supports you: Smart Glasses consist of a (wearable) display, a tiny camera, some local processing power and an uplink to a backend service. The current implementation is based on Android and runs on smartphones, early research prototypes with different types of wearable displays have been evaluated as well. The system executes face detection and face tracking locally on the device (e.g. smartphone) and then links to the service running in the cloud to perform the actual face recognition based on the user's personal contact list (gallery). Recognized and identified persons are then displayed with names and latest social network activities. The approach is directed towards an AR ecosystem for mobile use. Therefore, open interfaces on the device are provided as well as to the service backend. We intend to take today's location based AR systems one step further towards computer vision based AR to really fit the needs of today's and tomorrow's users.