1. Something fun and experimental! As of today we have opened up a new tool which tries to recognise which band member is visible on a photo in our photo collections. This means you can browse our photo section specifically for photos of Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry without the need for the original uploader to have marked them as part of the photo title or description. You can also search for photos where all the band members are in, great if you look for full band photos!

    If you go to the photo pages you can click on "Per band member" to start testing it out!


    And yes, Larry is indeed on the fourth photo!

    If you upload photos to U2start you will automatically get an email within the hour with an overview of which band members our automated tool recognised, also giving you the ability to correct this. You can remove incorrectly tagged band members, or add band members which were not detected.

    The tool is still running in the background and scanning our entire collection. As we collect more data, the tool will get better so we can reduce the number of "false positives" (incorrectly tagging Bono as Larry!) and increase the number of correct tags. You can already go in to your own uploaded photos from the past and start removing/adding band members.

    It's sometimes very difficult for a tool to recognise four people over a period of 40 years as they change so much over the years. We have collected hundreds of photos in order to "train the algorithm" to make it better, which we'll continue on doing in the future.

    We'll keep working on it and bring you more cool stuff as we go along
  2. The bad part of this amazing tool is that we'll soon run out of webmasters... since Google is hiring you both for sure
  3. Or the Interpol, FBI and other agencies.
    Great job guys!
  4. How cool !
  5. So what you're saying is that we can use this tool in the member photos thread to find out who Larry is disguised as?
  6. Awesome!
  7. Originally posted by ahn1991:So what you're saying is that we can use this tool in the member photos thread to find out who Larry is disguised as?
    Yep!