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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)
Re: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.
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...
Re:Also (Score:2, Informative)
mann = the other one
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
Re:Also (Score:2)
I happen to be a white dude with a shaved head and long red goatee.
That site tried to tell me I look like Barry White.
Um... OK.
Re:Also (Score:2)
I also got matched with a black guy, Michael Jordan. I copied their little animated GIF which is supposed to show how much we are alike: Pasty geek == Michael Jordan? [macetech.com]
William Gibson novel (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:William Gibson novel (Score:4, Informative)
Re:William Gibson novel (Score:2)
I tried it with a photo of Darl McBride (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I tried it with a photo of Darl McBride (Score:4, Funny)
I think it said not to upload indecent pics...
Re:I tried it with a photo of Darl McBride (Score:2)
Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Interesting... (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
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)
Re:NOOOOO (Score:3, Informative)
It's called PCA (principle components analysis) and works by finding an underlying low-dimensional representation that minimises the reconstruction error when you put everything back together.
So you find a new set of basis vectors to represent the data with, where your new set is smaller than your old set.
It turns out that the best basis used for the reconstruction is formed from the 'biggest' eigenvectors (those
I think the real question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I think the real question is... (Score:2, Funny)
Avoiding recognition: Gaming the system (Score:5, Interesting)
But I wonder if people can game this system to make themselves unrecognizable. For example, a member of the tin-foil hat brigade might submit multiple mugshots of themselves under mutliple assumed identities. By using slight variations in facial expression, makeup, lighting, and camera angle they would make the system think that a large fraction of the population "looks like" the person who seeks anonymity. The system would then have a hard time identifying the tin-foil hat wearer because he/she matches so many people in the test data.
Anyone can make themselves "look average" if they can bias the dataset that defines the average.
Re:Avoiding recognition: Gaming the system (Score:1)
F.ex. a noticibly different nose will cause a human to think that two people cant possibly look alike, while the recognition (as i saw it used on vg.no) treats all vectors equally. Another example is the effect that hair falling differently counts for many points because of the many edges involved in hair (based on my observation of the site).
Anyway, i'm not on their list of celebrities, so i won't say anything posi
It's an evil plot! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's an evil plot! (Score:1)
Ima Gunna (Score:4, Funny)
John Goodman?
Bob Barker?
Alex Travec?
Geraldo Rivera?
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:1)
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:2)
I think many more of us already know what Lord Farquaad looks like from watching Shrek. How about a link to a picture of Eisner?
Re:Ima Gunna (Score:2)
I seem to recall more of a similarity between the two. Now when I see both side by side, not so much.
Re:Ima Gunna (Test it)! (Score:5, Interesting)
ex Hear'Say member Danny (Score:2)
In the UK, many of us have seen a likeness between the Hear'Say member Danny and Shrek. Although calling him a celebrity is using the term very loosely indeed.
Some pics (couldn't find much, there are much better ones that show more of a likeness, but oh well
/.'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:/.'ed (Score:1)
Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith? (Score:5, Funny)
Note: post is funny and ontopic (Score:5, Informative)
Translation:
Subject: Dear God, what has happened to our bandwidth?
Comment: DAMN Slashdot!
Mange takker (Score:2)
Re:Note: post is funny and ontopic (Score:1)
Kjære Gud! Hva har skjedd med vår båndbredde?
Re:Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith (Score:2)
HELVETES
Babelfish is always funny when reading something translated to your own language.
Re:Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith (Score:2)
Hey now, you don't have to work "blue" :)
Babelfish is always funny when reading something translated to your own language.
No arguement there! I was using http://www.freetranslation.com/ other than my missing the "d" in bandwidth *cough*, in Norwegian its just combining the two words "bånd" and "bredde"? Whats up with the "med"?
Re:Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith (Score:1)
usually, it means with.
Re:Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith (Score:1)
Re:Kjær Gud! Hva skjedd til vår bandwith (Score:1)
If only.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:If only.. (Score:1)
-the police already have our mug shots in the passport database...
Privacy concerns with eigenfaces (Score:2)
Indecent stuff... (Score:1)
It's automated, right? Interesting possibilities...
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.
My cat looks like Scott Baio (Score:5, Funny)
So when the site goes down... (Score:4, Funny)
Medical application (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Medical application (Score:1, Interesting)
I've worked in neuropsychology and neurology, and there's this phenomenon that often occurs where you meet a patient, and know they're dysmorphic in an identifiable way, but can't quite place what's different about them. These individuals often go through years, if not decades, of unsuccessful genetic testing to try to match them with a syndrome.
Perhaps your suggestion could help in such cases. More generally, it might improve research, by allowing for quantification of feature
Is this brought to us by.. (Score:2)
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!
[/sarcasm]
(For the humor impaired, and there seems to be an inordinate number of you, I'M KIDDING!
value-added service (Score:2, Funny)
That explains alot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That explains alot (Score:2)
Re:That explains alot (Score:1)
Re:That explains alot (Score:2)
In March, 2004, American settled with DOT for $1.5 million for removing 10 persons of Middle Eastern appearance as security risks.
In April, 2004, Continental settled with DOT for $0.5 million having been charnged with searching men of Middle Eastern descent more often and otherwise discriminating
Re:That explains alot (Score:1)
Re:That explains alot (Score:2)
Racism is an internal attitude. You can't fix it by imposing external quotas. Racists just find more subtle ways to show their prejudice. For instance, a hair cutting salon here in Virginia and Maryland (my wife cuts my hair, so I don't remember the exact name and don't want to malign an innocent company) has a policy of charging a much higher price or refusing to cut "thick
I'm crushed (Score:2)
Kim Jung Il. There's a blow to the ego...
Slashdotted, mirrors? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted, mirrors? (Score:1)
Re:Slashdotted, mirrors? (Score:2)
Not to mention that I was supposed to look like George Clooney, funny my (absent) love life doesn't really mirror that "fact"..
Re:Slashdotted, mirrors? (Score:1)
Let's be honest for a second... (Score:2, Interesting)
By the way (Score:1, Offtopic)
Uh.... (Score:2)
yay! (Score:4, Funny)
My use for this (Score:2, Interesting)
Need mirors (Score:1)
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.
Re:Oh, the possibilities of recognition technology (Score:1)
http://www.visi.com/~drow/ampere/ [visi.com]
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: (Score:2)
OSS eigenface lib (Score:4, Informative)
An extended use (Score:2, Interesting)
Interesting (Score:1)
However....clicking on "More likenesses" matches me next with Yasser Arafat!!!
Guess it's time for some extensive plastic surgery!
Great leaders...? (Score:2)
Bill Gates! (Score:1)
It's official. (Score:3, Funny)
Matches photos, not faces? (Score:2)
Re:Matches photos, not faces? (Score:1)
I am not sure what the quality factors considered by the often ill-informed journalists were and I am not sure what the pictures uploaded by the
The technology originated in the computer vision labs at MIT and if the orientation and lighting as well as size of the images are normali
Top 50 (Score:1)
111::Michael Jordan
108::John Kerry
106::Jason Donovan
105::Kristen Gislefoss
104::Tobey Maguire
102::David Bowie
102::Anders Hatlo
97::Noel Gallagher
96::Arnulf Refsnes
93::Per Christian Ellefsen
93::Julianne Moore
91::David Lee Roth
90::Herborg Kråkevik
88::Willie Nelson
87::Wyclef Jean
86::Otto Jespersen
84::Arve Juritzen
83::Gail Devers
80::Debra Messing
79::Benjamin Bratt
78::Annette Bening
77::Tyra Banks
77::Gisken Armand
77::Ethan Hawke
76::Michael Keaton
76::Kid Rock
76::Drew Barrymore
75::Ronny Johnsen
75::C
Someone's editing wikepedia again..., (Score:3, Interesting)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Eigenfaces are eigenvectors in the high-dimensional vector space of possible faces of human beings. These eigenvectors are used in the computer vision problem of human face recognition.
Some eigenfaces.
Eigenfaces also are linked to the slashdotting of many sites.
jaj
Hilarious (Score:1)
The best matches for Osama Bin Laden and Josef Stalin are also quite young.. Maby someone should keep an eye on those kids just in case, but im sure the FBI already got it covered.
Better keep an eye on that kid matching George W. Bush as well!
Egads! Scary stuff.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Totally Random (#5-Lorenzo Lamas, #6-Ariel Sharon) (Score:1)
The scarey part ... (Score:1)
Re:The scarey part ... (Score:1)
Man's Best Friend (Score:1)
I always knew there was something familiar about Alec Baldwin [starmatch.vg.no]!
Re:Eigenfaces? (Score:1)
Or NOT.
Because I tried it a couple times with different basic expressions and got totally different results - and I mean NOT EVEN CLOSE...