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This is an interesting website, that I thought I would pass along … MyHeritage Face Recognition .. part of the MyHeritage Family 2.0 and Genealogy website.

From the site:

MyHeritage.com is one of the world’s first services to apply advanced face recognition technology to personal photos and family history; and it’s free!

MyHeritage.com has sophisticated algorithms that facilitate the use of face recognition for genealogy: it recognizes faces in different stages of peoples’ lives and uses additional photo meta-data such as dates and places to improve the accuracy of face recognition … etc. etc. etc.

SO NATURALLY I TRIED IT ON MYSELF

This is the picture from my 1800HART.com/blog/ website .. I used it to test this sophisticated algorithm! Here are the top 10 celebrities that could be me!

1) Timothy Leary - 68% Probability
2) Joesph Deiss - 66%
3) Tim Allen - 63%
4) Bo Xilai - 61%
5) William Crookes - 60%
6) Terrence Stamp -59%
7) Roger Daltry - 58%
Ahmed Shah Massoud - 56%
9) Francois Mauriac - 56%
10) Daniela Pestova - 56%

BUT .. DOES IT REALLY WORK?

I tried loading a previously loaded picture that I had posted here at call HART crazy of Jessica Alba. SURELY … it should recognize this celebrity? Here are the top three answers .. and it seemed to “get it right” by picking Jessica Alba as the first choice .. but - look how close the other probabilities are? I wonder if they are related? Hmmmmm.

1) Jessica Alba - 98% Probability
2) Adriana Karembeu - 97%
3) Calista Flockhart - 97%

AND WHAT ABOUT OTHER NOT-SO-FAMOUS CELEBRITIES?

I tried it with a picture of our Canadian Prime Minister .. P.M. Stephen Harper . I found it quite interesting to learn about the celebrities this “celebrity” seems to look most like..

1) Hugh Grant - 74%
2) Colin Firth - 71%
3) Thomas Klestil - 68%
4) Stan Laurel - 66%

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