MyHeritage - face recognition
Face recognition is a thing I always look at in awe. Usually, the demos are fairly smart and promising. But now, we can even try things ourselves!
MyHeritage offers a demo in which you can upload photos of yourself (or others). After uploading, the website will try to find a celebrity that looks like you. But, of course, the best way to test this system is to upload celebrity photos and see if they match!
I’ve uploaded a few, starting with a tricky one I thought (the website most likely belonging to a US-based company): Vladimir Putin. The result was actually right on spot!
Ok, let’s make it a little trickier, I figured. Let’s take a picture
of Saddam Hussein. Yep, the script figured it out correctly again.
But what about more than one face in a photo? Right again!
The only one that went horribly wrong, is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Somehow, he didn’t get recognized. The one looking like him most,
according to MyHeritage, is …
… Gabriel Batistuta (a soccer player, if you wondered (like I did) 
Go upload your own picture. What celebrity looks like you?
Comments
Comment from BOK
Time: October 18, 2007, 10:40 am
I was close to Leonardo di Caprio (ouch!) and Tom Cruise, heh-heh.
Check also this link: http://www.polarrose.com/
The Polar Rose browser plugin for Firefox (Internet Explorer coming soon) lets you discover who’s in any public photo. The browser plugin is currently in private beta and we are letting in new explorers in every day.
Comment from Joffie
Time: October 18, 2007, 2:16 pm
I recognized the famous explorer Fridtjof Nansen right away on the polarrose website. Tried to point my mouse to the fill out field of the demo.
I seem to be resembling Nicholas Brendon. Now that is someone I would not have recognized.
Comment from Blom
Time: October 17, 2007, 8:43 pm
For the fun of it, I seem to look like the following people :