Just wanted to point out MyHeritage.com's facial recognition and matching software, which has given my girlfriend quite a thrill. It seems that I'm a 51% facial match to Cary Grant - she's glowing right now.
I'm actually relatively amazed at the ability of the software to identify features and match them up. Supposedly, this technology will soon be applied to your personal photo libraries (MyHeritage is currently still in beta) and can be used to categorize photos by the identities you assign (once) to a face. Damn cool stuff.
p,s, My closest match was actually Rowan Atkinson, but we'll ignore that piece and focus on the positives, eh?
I was sorta hoping for Angelina Jolie...but it came out:
55% Charlize Theron (Who I admire a lot) 58% Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewife star) 59% Grace Kelly 66% Deborah Kerr 60% Laura Flynn Boyle
That's funny Kim - I can totally see Laura Flynn Boyle in your avatar pic :)
OK, scared to admit this, but 72% like .....
Denise Richards!!!!!!!
Adriana Lima 74%, Rachel McAdams 67%, Sharon Stone 64%, and OPRAH WINFREY 64%! LOL.
I was trying to figure out who Adriana Lima was, then I did an image search...
Not bad, eh?! Somehow I don't think that MyHeritage 2.0, body recognition, would present the same match.
Heh. It was my avatar pic that said I look like Jim Carrey...which didn't really upset me too much, oddly enough. I think he's a comic genius.
I used a different pic, from one of my web pages (cre8pc.com/aboutcre8pc2.html) since it seemed like a clearer photo. At least that one came back with female names!
74% Natalie Imbruglia 74% Gillian Anderson 74% Julianne Moore 74% Keanu Reeves
Clearly i am a girly-man as well as THE ONE
I think this program does a terrible job matching. Sorry... A program would be better with matching if it could 3d scan the face. But nobody has 3d scanners at home and so that's out! ahha But the best alternative to that, in order to get a more accurate match, would be to have users submit a full on, 1/4, and side view of their face. From this, much more structural info could be gained and a much more educated matching could take place. Sounds like a programmers nightmare to code a program that could do this though!
Has anyone tried hashthyself.com? Seems to be more accurate, flattering and cool. Well flattering at least for me. Sure someone out there won't be!
It's feature by feature, at 50% it could be something like having a similar nose, or a similar mouth, chin, cheeks, forehead, whatever... it's not the whole package at 50%.
52% Cristopher Lloyd... 51% Brad Pitt... 50% Robert Downey Jr... lol this cant be right.. I think this thing is broken.
No matter which picture I put in they can't find anyone for me, but my wife is a 74% match to Julianne Moore, I think she'll be pretty happy to hear that.
What a great way to start the morning. I'm a 62% match to Isabella Rosselini! Woohoo! :D
John Cleese in top 5...not bad:.)
66% Charles Manson. And it is true that I don't surf.
ha.... I had 57% for Peter Ustinov, 50% for Donald Rumsfeld and 50% for Jerry Garcia.
YES! I get 74% Eva Longoria - SCORE! MyHeritage is AWESOME. Rand, I hope your image didnt match this picture of Rowan Atkinson... !!!
cool... It seems I resemble Benjamin Netanyahu (66%). Also Bill Paxton (56%) and Clark Gable (55%) are matches... On the positive side, my wife matches with Gillian Anderson ;)