Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Celebrity Face Recognition

Posted in Computers & Technology, Graphics, Health, Interface, Qualitative, Science, Web 2.0 by Elliott Back on January 12th, 2006.

If you want to see which celebrity you look like, try My Heritage’s facial match demo. For a free signup, it will let you upload a large frontal picture of yourself that it uses to compare you to its stored database of celebrities, returning a handful of interesting “best matches.” I put that in quotes because my best match was only 67%, but I suppose that’s better than nothing.

My first match was luckily male. Mr. David Beckham at 67% shares more than just his handsome face with me–our last names are eerily similar. I just have less “ham” in me.

Wow, it's pretty

Oh yes, we are brother seperated at birth. Twins, even!

David Beckham / Elliott Back Mashup

So, for your own celeb mashup, give this web 2.0 app a little whirl!

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30 Responses to “Celebrity Face Recognition”

  1. osaczek says:

    nic

  2. candy says:

    yay

  3. nichole e says:

    I just did my heritage five minutes ago and they told me I was asian!
    Probably because I have dark hair and high cheek bones, but I’m fairly sure that I’m Irish lol

  4. Sarah says:

    I have two pictures at the end of the page.. and in all the skyblog theres a lot of me too..
    thx in advance

  5. julie says:

    hey, i tried this n luved it. i look like Cameron Diaz. AWESOME haha

    bobbyaz

  6. Nikča Jirkovská says:

    I´m very beautiful.Itś right.

  7. Some Gay Dude says:

    You’re way better looking than Beckham. Maybe that’s just because he’s an *******. I dunno.

  8. Rhys says:

    ok i did this its all bullshit… how the hell do i look like snoop dog :S im white

  9. terry says:

    the site wont work on my comp for some reason ?:S

  10. katy says:

    apparantly, i look like no one :(
    my heritage couldn’t find anyone who matched me!

  11. aoife1 says:

    this looks fun lol

  12. Blaithin Black says:

    Hey!!!! Just sed i’d say hello cuz my surname is Black too!!!!!! :) hehe!!!
    I’m hooked on myheritage!!..it’s so class!! I got 97% adriana karembeu and my others included jessica alba, jessica simpson, eva longoria(i don’t think i look lik her,but my mom does so maybe i hav one of her features that i don’t kno about) britney speares (i hear that everyday of the week so no surprise there), kate hudson, jessica biel, rachel bilson, beyoncee (oddly enuff..maybe it’s my bubbley cheeks..hehe)

    ps.. podge from podge and rodge comes up lookin lik mother teresa!!!!! hahaha!!!!!! xxxx

  13. mj dee says:

    that’s hilarious. i tried searching for another site that can do face match and found http://www.starsinyou.com. its faster and i like my matches there better

  14. beccaboo says:

    that guy on the top looks nothing like david backam…this is just a stupid site to make insecure people feel good about themselfs

  15. Tracey says:

    I am a white 25 year old female and when I uploaded my photo, it came up that I look 80% like Kirsten Dunst, 70% Mary J Blige, 71% Janet Jackson, amongst many others… silly if you ask me…

  16. NT says:

    that suck ur just making david beckham and beccaboo is right about wat he said who ever that guy is is a loser ! ! ! ! !

  17. NT says:

    u make david beckham UGLY ppppssssshhhhhh u look nothing like him they just couldnt find anyonewho looks like u ! ! ! ! !

  18. NT says:

    wat the hell were u thinking u should never done that pour david he must feel very bad right now thinking that u look like him =(

  19. NT says:

    how would u now if hes a *** or not *** DUDE ur probably too poor too meet him ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !EVERY ONE WHO THINKS THIS IS COOL ARE LOSERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. Lina says:

    This thing so doesn’t work. I ran a scan of my face, and it said I looked like Alexis Bledel (which, I wish, but I so do not). So then I found a picture of her on google, ran it through the scan, AND HER OWN FACE DIDN’T EVEN SHOW UP AS ONE OF THE MATCHES!!!!!

  21. Julijana says:

    r

  22. Julijana says:

    i,hello everyone!!!!

  23. Rachel Green says:

    Hi, i tried my heritage face recognition. Its quite a fun. i recommend it.

  24. hoshi says:

    yay I’ve got 90% Kana ;o

  25. hollyann says:

    so i did this and it said i look like janet jackson and sara michelle geller and some guy lol well im a white girl and i do look like julia stiles and kirsten dunst had a baby together and it was me… but nothing like those people

  26. ripon says:

    I like honest person.

  27. sdf says:

    **** oida

  28. C0oKii3 says:

    kay,im a African American female and came up looking like Bow Wow and Eminem((sound wrong to anyone else))this is the crapiest sTuFF 3v3r!!!

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