A new test for face recognition software

January 14, 2006 By

Michael Coates, a coworker, has a new test for face recognition software. If it says that I look like Johnny Depp, it probably still needs more work in the lab. Heheh.

Of course that started a thread over on Channel 9.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, Photo sharing
  • http://randyh.wordpress.com/2006/01/14/face-recognition-software-on-the-web/ Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0 » Face recognition software on the web

    [...] Michael Coates, a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, points to a face-recognition software company with an interesting web site. They encourage you to scan your picture and have it matched against their celebrity photo database. Let’s just say that I was “all shook up” after I tested my photo. Thank you, thank you very much MyHeritage. [Via Scoble] [...]

  • Christopher Coulter

    It flunked if it didn’t nab Philip Seymour Hoffman. I mean separated at birth total. How it can miss that is crazy.

  • Christopher Coulter

    It flunked if it didn’t nab Philip Seymour Hoffman. I mean separated at birth total. How it can miss that is crazy.

  • http://dnwallace.com/blog/?p=76 blob » David N Wallace = Cary Grant

    [...] Over at My Heritage, Frank Arrigo might look like the Dalai Lama or Kevin Mitnick, while Robert Scoble looks like Johnny Depp - but neither measure up to my match, Cary Grant! [...]

  • http://www.hashthyself.com/ Manda

    Check out hashthyself, at http://www.hashthyself.com

    They seem to be doing a much cooler job at this photo matching thing than myheritage. They just posted a link to the recent hashes and some of them look pretty good, esp. mine :-)

    Manda

  • http://www.hashthyself.com Manda

    Check out hashthyself, at http://www.hashthyself.com

    They seem to be doing a much cooler job at this photo matching thing than myheritage. They just posted a link to the recent hashes and some of them look pretty good, esp. mine :-)

    Manda