Face recognition
MyHeritage's new face recognition software is quite fun, as they try to match you with celebrities. Sometimes you can see what it's getting at, though it does seem to fixate on certain issues, for example the angle of the face in the picture, or whether it's wearing glasses. It does at least recognise which bit of the picture is the face (it can do multiple faces in the same picture too).Some examples I tried (Chosen because their photos were easily available).
Me - I look like Natalie Portman, Hans Frank (a Nazi) or Elton John. Oh dear.
Oliver Kamm - Eric Bana (who?) or Tom Cruise
Tim Worstall - Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) or Gwyneth Paltrow
Scott Burgess - Ozzy Osbourne
Cuthie - Slyvia Plath, or Jean Cocteau
So as you can see, perfect accuracy.
posted by Matthew @ 1/11/2006 04:59:00 PM
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