Cool new technology: face recognition
Monday, November 20, 2006 Permanent link to this post
Face recognition technology has been improving rapidly for past few years. Advances in face recognition, and pattern matching in general, has significant potential for new products in security, personalized service, etc. A proof positive of improvement in this technology comes from this site: MyHeritage. It provides a wonderful free service that matches your face with faces of celebrities and tells you which celebrities your face matches best against. For example: here is what it had to say about me:
Considering that John Cleese is one of my all time favorite actors, I don't mind the above comparison at all. More impressive than the final result is the process though. You can upload any kind of complex image and the site can "identify" a face in that. I tried feeding the site images where my face is in the middle of complex patterns, and it successfully identified a "face" in the middle of all the clutter.
Good Stuff!!
Considering that John Cleese is one of my all time favorite actors, I don't mind the above comparison at all. More impressive than the final result is the process though. You can upload any kind of complex image and the site can "identify" a face in that. I tried feeding the site images where my face is in the middle of complex patterns, and it successfully identified a "face" in the middle of all the clutter.
Good Stuff!!
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