Weird face recognition thingie

[altivo]

I am so tempted to give this thing a horse or dog photo... At least I recognize most of the people it matched me with, though.



Curiously enough, this sparked an old memory. A graduate school friend was very insistent that I looked like Richard Dreyfuss. I couldn't see it then, but now that we're both going gray, there does appear to be a mild resemblance.

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[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I did give it a horse photo and the result was "no matches." When I tried it for myself, I got few results and had to look those up. Fine with me. I look like... me!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tried a perfectly good wolf, with clearly defined features, but no match. Thing is, it also couldn't find the face in any of my own photos without help, and most were no match. It really wants a straight on, staring at the camera photo.

It would be interesting to try it with a batch of family photos, which is what it was really designed to do, but I'm not about to bother with uploading all those over dialup.

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you didn't match Bill Gates!

This thing is cool, but there's still a long way to go. I tried it twice, once with an old picture (no beard) and once with a newer picture (beard). Each time, it gave me completely different results. It also seemed to pick up on my facial expression. I'm guessing it's using a very basic outline/edge algorithm. While this certainly will produce results of faces that look like yours, it definitely doesn't check bone structure and face shape.

Then again, it's not an FBI/CIA/CSA application either :D (aka "Whaddaya want for nothing?")

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the Dreyfuss resemblance is pretty good (not a bad look, either).

[nipper.livejournal.com]

I see the resemblance with Piper, not so sure about Richard... ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. I didn't even know who Piper Perabo was. Nor the Ickx guy. The rest I recognized, of course. It's an older photo of me. Turn the dark hair and beard to pepper and salt gray-brown and you may see it more easily.

I tried two newer photos, but the software insisted that I didn't even have a face in them.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

If you say so. I've never particularly been his fan. Actually I think the software just recognized the beard and glasses, combined with the similarity of poses.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Of all the choices there...yeah...Dreyfuss.

*stays away from you on nights the power goes out and
he hears weird tones on the telephone*