Eigenfaces Online Service 149
nordicfrost writes "At Norways largest online newspaper, they're doing the beta test of an Eigenface service. In short, it takes a portrait picture, treats it with some filters and analyzes the vectors in it. This is used for crimestopping and generic Big Brother activities. In this database, however, your mug is compared with celebrites to find which one that matches you the most. I match, among others, Brad Garrett. This site is pretty self-explaining, upload a portrait pic of yourself taken right in front of your face, closely cropped to the face and use the up arrow to see your top ten list of celebrity matches. You have to agree to some terms first, like giving permission to use your pic in promotions and other stuff and not to upload indecent stuff."
A front for Norway's foreign intelligence! (Score:5, Funny)
Also (Score:5, Funny)
My first attempt matched me up to a very nice looking female.
Too bad I'm a male.
So that's what kvimmen means.
I tried it with a photo of Darl McBride (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
I most resemble Mr. Sparkle (Score:5, Funny)
Mr. Sparkle is everybody's favorite Japanese pop-culture soap logo. His soap is made only from the purest of plants from the mysterious forests of Hokkaido, Japan. He appears frequently in commercials for his soap, and can be seen on billboards, and outside of the Mr. Sparkle plant. According to his box, Mr. Sparkle is a "magnet for foodstuffs", and he banishes dirt to the land of wind and ghosts. If you are further interested in Mr. Sparkle soap, you can contact the factory in Japan for a videotape on distributing Mr. Sparkle in your home prefecture. http://www.geocities.com/chuckhoyt/mrsparkle.html
This explains a LOT of strange things that have happened to me over the years!
-j
dangit! (Score:5, Funny)
NOOOOO (Score:3, Funny)
I think the real question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I tried it with a photo of Darl McBride (Score:4, Funny)
I think it said not to upload indecent pics...
It's an evil plot! (Score:5, Funny)
Ima Gunna (Score:4, Funny)
John Goodman?
Bob Barker?
Alex Travec?
Geraldo Rivera?
Re:I think the real question is... (Score:2, Funny)
/.'ed (Score:5, Funny)
(Pouts) - now I'm gonna have to wait ages to give their boimetric database a picture of me and my IP address.
Re:A front for Norway's foreign intelligence! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:2, Funny)
Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith? (Score:5, Funny)
My cat looks like Scott Baio (Score:5, Funny)
So when the site goes down... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Avoiding recognition: Gaming the system (Score:0, Funny)
Homeland security by any other name... (Score:5, Funny)
This is a GREAT idea! What will be next? See how closely your fingerprints match the fingerprints of your favorite celebrities? See how well your password stacks up against other users?
Just fill out this form, put in your SS#, mother's maiden name, US address, credit card numbers, and the last 3 tax returns, and we'll show you if you look like Fred Flintstone... and we won't do anything else with your information... HONEST!
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(For the humor impaired, and there seems to be an inordinate number of you, I'M KIDDING!
value-added service (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Also (Score:5, Funny)
The possible ways to respond to this are numerous, but I think that what you need to do, is to make sure that under no possible circumstance you find yourself in a prison...
That explains alot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdotted, mirrors? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Indecent stuff... (Score:2, Funny)
They have several back-end databases containing tons of eigentits, eigenbums, eigenarses etc. generated through hours of dedicated pron surfing.
If the uploaded image matches too closely to any of these then it is rejected.
yay! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, the possibilities of recognition technology. (Score:5, Funny)
On a more general note, non-face-specific image recognition software would be handy to have for a lot of reasons. I'm envisioning an object recognizer, where you take a picture or scan of, say, a circuit board. It could spit back something like "That's a SB16 ISA PNP, drivers are www.some.where and compatibility info is www.over.there"
Such a system would need a distributed database, I don't think it would make sense to centralize it. With the right moderation system, you might even be able to keep every circuit board from matching a porn site.
Like I need a computer to tell me... (Score:3, Funny)
Mirror (Score:3, Funny)
But I'll get this up soon, I promise. It's about time I gave back to the community.
Re:Also (Score:2, Funny)
Too bad the nice looking female was Mrs. Garrett [tvtome.com] from the TV sitcom Facts of Life. I guess they never got past the 'G's when setting up the celebs. reference images database.
--laz
It's official. (Score:3, Funny)