New video application Viewdle is actually able to pull off significant facial recognition within video. It takes one detailed image of a person's face and then picks out when the person appears in video. This leads to deep tagging and rich video search. I'm not sure whether this will be available for personal use (could they offer a browser extension where this is utilized in video we've already uploaded on YouTube, Google Video, and Facebook), but it's alive and impressive on the Reuters, allowing you to search through their video archives.
Other recent articles about facial recognition in images: Riya 1,2 (my favorite), Google, AOL
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