Riya

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Website: http://www.riya.com/

Riya is a visual search engine. Users can use it to search their photos, their friends’ photos, and public photos on Riya.com.

Address: 3 Waters Park Drive #120 San Mateo, CA 94403 Map it »

Industry: Consumer Internet

Sub-Industry: Search / Portal

Ownership: Private

Date	Type	Capital Amount	Post-Money Valuation	Investors
2005	Series A	4M	Unknown	BlueRun Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures
12/31/2007	Series B	3M	Unknown	Bay Partners, Leapfrog Ventures, BlueRun Ventures

Name:	Riya
Product URL:	http://www.riya.com/
Description:	Users must first sign up at Riya.com to download and install the Riya uploader. Once installed, users can upload their photos. As expected, users can control privacy settings of various images being uploaded. The client will auto-rotate photos with faces and text, resize large photos to 800 x 600 resolution, and detect faces within the photos. In order to take full advantage of the facial recognition capabilities of Riya, users must first “train” Riya – there are three ways to train Riya to recognize faces. Users can drag and drop faces to tags or tags to faces; they can use Auto Training to inherit the training sets from their contacts; or, they can individually tag photos while browsing through their collection. Riya searches users' photo collections to auto-tag the faces that match those they have trained. It sorts the results into three categories: Definitely a Match, Maybe a Match and Not a Match. When Riya has gone through the entire collection, users will see the results of the auto-tagging. Riya is not perfect, so it's bound to make mistakes from time to time. Users can easily click on the photos that are not a match to eliminate them from the set. Users can browse by People, Albums, Time, Location and Text or perform a search for a specific term. There is no limit to the number of photos one can add to Riya visual search.
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