Face Recognition
17 January 2007Here’s another fun website.
My Heritage Face Recognition. This is an online program that compares a photograph that you upload to over 4000 famous people. Their collection includes famous people from entertainment, art, music, science, literature, sports to name a few. Using photographs of these people from the last 3 centuries they compare your photo and bring up the person you most look like.
Built to improve face recognition technology, My Heritage had given access to the general internet population.
The procedure is simple. Sign up and then upload a photo of yourself. The program scans and detects faces in your picture then algorithms are applied to the detected faces to compare it to the bank of 4000+ pictures. A few seconds later and you’re looking at your famous match.
Sadly, I seem to look like guys and nobody I’ve ever heard of before. When I uploaded a picture of my father there was no match found. A buddy of mine apparently looks like Forrest Whittaker. He was happy to have a Golden Globe winner as his look a like.
Obviously the technology has a ways to go but, for now, it’s entertaining. Perhaps, one day in the future, it can be used in genealogy studies or finding missing persons until then, you’ll just have to trace your family tree the old fashioned way.
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