Could have been worse
At MyHeritage you can upload a picture of yourself and their database compares you with 4,000 celebrities.
Let’s see…
A Butler, a Bratpacker, a Beatle, two Bonds, a Bogshed fan, a Bolshevik and a Baywatch babe (how the hell? I do have her chest I suppose. Time to pack the beer in. Again.)
Bloody hell, though, not bad. At least Charles Clarke didn’t figure in the mix.
I’m not sure what kind of degenerative eye disorder you’d have to be suffering from to mistake me for any of them, though.
If the ID card facial recognition software works like this we’re in for some hilarity at the airports in a year or two.
(via Gary Marshall)
Posted on August 23rd, 2006 at 2:42pm under Pooterism
I’d love to know how the facial recognition system actually works, because it clearly doesn’t. Either that, or I really do look like a cross between Angela Lansbury and Harold Shipman.
It informed me that my 7-month old son resembled Denise Richards and Kenneth Branagh to an equal degree (73%). Which sets a new benchmark of facial recognition excellence.
One hesitates on a polite and decorous site such as this to suggest that in likening you to Yasmine Bleeth (who she, ed?) they might have mistaken which part of her anatomy most clearly resembles you! Not, I hasten to add, that your neatly trimmed facial hair is anything other than, er, neat and, er, hairy.
John Peel I can understand but the rest….? I reckon you made them up.
Straight up, Steve. If you don’t believe me I’ll email you the photo and you can upload it yourself and find out. I had to google Gerard Butler to see who he was.
Celebrities are more attractive on average than us lower mortals. Therefore a bunch of celebrities chosen by their resemblance to a normal person will, as a group, tend to be better looking than that person.
Still, I bet their blogs are far less interesting. And they are inwardly tormented, one hopes.
Bigblue's celebrity look-alikes…
At My Heritage you can upload a photograph of yourself and let their facial recognition software compare you to 4,000 celebrities. I got this from Chicken Yoghurt, who comments:If the ID card facial recognition software works like this we’re in f…
Surely the real test would be to upload the picture of a celeb and see if it manages to match it up with the picture in their database?
Well, I suppose face recognition biometrics has to make a living somehow.
What I noticed was the matching with large foreheads, not covered by hair. Do you feel this is you?
Best regards
Nigel, I thought it was my licence to kill and eye for a catchy indie tune but I think you havea point.