Face Recognition Tool

Upload a front facing photo of your face into the My Heritage Face Recognition Tool, choose the “Celebrity Database”, and see which celebrities you most resemble.

I have to take slight issue with their claim that the DB contains “faces of the world’s 2,400 most famous men and women”, due to the fact that when you plug in one god awful picture of me my number one hit for facial similarity is Sergio Vieira de Mello, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. I’m not complaining, he’s a nice looking guy, but one of the world’s 2,400 most famous men and women? Probably not.

Some other hits I got were Kenneth Branagh, Ewan McGregor and Jacques Chirac. All of these I can kinda see, mostly due to all of us having no lips. Some other, more confusing hits? Er, how about Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, the ninth Prime Minister of the Republic of India? I’m going to assume that wild hit came from the bit of Ms. J’s face included in the box, because they look exactly alike.

Got any interesting hits of your own? Leave ’em in comments.

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2 Responses to Face Recognition Tool

  1. Lela says:

    Please to post said god awful picture of self. I’m curious to know how in what light you resemble Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao. Also, my top hits are Elisha Cuthbert AND Kiefer Sutherland. I’m not seeing it.

  2. atom says:

    Please to be clicking on the “one god awful picture of me” link above in Firefox (Safari doesn’t work). It will show you the picture of me used and my results. You can also copy the URL once you get your results and post the link here in comments, so others can see your pic and the results. Fun for all.

    P.S. You could do far worse than Ms. Cuthbert and Mr. Sutherland for face parents, though I would be interested in seeing what pic you used to get there…

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