Google IO: With Little Patterns, Google will find patterns and stories in your saved photos

After identifying photos with similar objects, Google will group them into photo albums. The object could be anything that is “not-so-obvious”.

Google at its IO event on Tuesday night announced a range of AI features for Google Photos users. Google noted that around 4 trillion photos stored in Google Photos are never viewed. It has now launched a new feature called Little Patterns, which as the name suggests, will identify photos with similar objects using Artificial Intelligence (AI). “Starting later this summer, when we find a set of three or more photos that share things like shape or color, we'll highlight these little patterns for you in your Memories,” Google noted in a blog post. After identifying photos with similar objects, Google will group them into photo albums. The object could be anything that is “not-so-obvious” from a backpack to a coffee mug, but Google intends to weave stories by bringing these pictures together. It is a step ahead of resurfacing photos with common themes which Google enables its users to do.