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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31 Responses to “Celebrity Face Recognition”

  1. ridpathos says:

    Lol. When I first did it all I got were old white guys with really really big beards. Like Brigham Young and stuff. I’m 21 and clean shaven. xD Then all I got were a bunch of Asians that look nothing like me. I’m half-asian, sure, but I think the face recognition thing has a complex of ‘all asians look the same’. The third picture I tried gave me all women. (hawt women too) ._. Do I really vary that much from picture to picture?

  2. 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!!!

  3. sdf says:

    **** oida

  4. ripon says:

    I like honest person.

  5. 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

  6. hoshi says:

    yay I’ve got 90% Kana ;o

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