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Eigenfaces Online Service
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."
I'm quite certain that this is a front for the "Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste"!
It helps if you know the language.
My first attempt matched me up to a very nice looking female.
Too bad I'm a male.
So that's what kvimmen means.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Wasn't there something like this in Virtual Light? I think it was used to find missing persons by posting information on which celebrities the abducted/missing person looked like.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
And it suggested This picture ...
So if I upload a picture of my ass, do they match it to Darl McBride?
Now all the ladies will want me.
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This explains a LOT of strange things that have happened to me over the years!
-j
Those bastards! They matched me with goatse!
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
I just finished studying eigenvalues and eigenvectors, now eigenfaces!?!?
Can I upload a photo of me with my tin-foil hat on?
An effective signature identifies a particular user amongst a base of thousands.
A facial recognition system like EigenFace looks for the dominant modes of variation among a population of faces to find predictors that help distinguish among the different faces. By ignore the ways that faces are more similar and accentuating the ways that faces are most different, they can craft identification algorithms. The only challenge is getting enough data to understand the full range of facial variations -- hence this solicitation for more facial data.
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.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
This is all an evil plot to match IP numbers with faces! Don't fall for it! And yes, I am very upset that they said my face most closely matched Paul Reubens.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Lets upload a picture of Shrek .. and see who's face more closely matches...
John Goodman?
Bob Barker?
Alex Travec?
Geraldo Rivera?
= Grow a brain...
Already.
(Pouts) - now I'm gonna have to wait ages to give their boimetric database a picture of me and my IP address.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
FORBANNET Slashdot!
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
in Norway they don't speak dutch, thats what the peoplein the Netherlands (Holland) do.
I just hope they can keep this out of the hands of the police. They would LOVE to get their hands on a database like this (even with the inevitable false positives you get when people just want to prank the system with mcbride/ hello.jpg type stuff). If you think i'm being too serious about this, think of the blurred lines between the media and serious business that is already the case in some countries. Keeping in the vein of the article, spot the quote: "Now i can feel like Matt Dillon instead of an asshole."
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
Has anyone tried uploading a pic of a celebrities face and seeing if that celebrity was returned as a look-alike?
I don't believe in sigs.
It's automated, right? Interesting possibilities...
Oops.. i know see that i reacted on a Dr. Evil quote, not on a reaction of a sane person...
For fun, I put my cat's face into one of these things, and it kept returning Scott Baio as the celebrity he most resembles.
does that mean that it's been /.'ed or that someone has a VERY ugly mug?
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" -- Homer Simpson
Perhaps less obvious is the usefulness of this system for syndrome diagnosis. There, we depend on our visual memory of a dysmorphic "Gestalt" to recognize human malformation syndromes. So far, attempts at some kind of computer-aided diagnosis have failed. Too bad, because syndrome diagnosis like we do it now is error-prone and difficult. This system however may be used to recognize typical "syndrome vectors", so you can feed it a patient's picture and have it say "x% match with oculo-dento-digital dysplasia" or whatever disease comes to mind. Potentially very useful!
----- One learns to itch where one can scratch.
the same group that gave us this site [talked about by this slashdot story] posted a while back where you could do a search on your screen name to see if you were on the RIAA hitlist...
500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
[sarcasm]
;) )
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!
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
If anybody comes up as matching Kevin Costner, they should include a nationwide suicide hotline in the subtext.
well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
Translation:
Subject: Dear God, what has happened to our bandwidth?
Comment: DAMN Slashdot!
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
I matched Osama Bin Laden. I always wondered why I was strip-searched every time I flew on an airline.
Better yet, test the site out by uploading pictures of celebrities, and see which celebrity is says they most closely resemble.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Kim Jung Il. There's a blow to the ego...
All's true that is mistrusted
...of ugly :-)
Has anyone mirrored this story? I want to read who I look like!
using this as a cute way to get everyone to update its database, so I can better control your lives!!!!!!!
That vg.no has come up with. I have a strong reason to believe that they present this bollocks now, when they're in the middle of a strike - to desperately get enough click-throughs for their ads.
--larsw
How many of you REALLY REALLY want to upload a picture of the goatse guy and see who he most resembles? Any guesses?
Liberalism...the next best thing to thinking.
eggonface... ?
Completely off-topic, but today is Norway's national day.
...no they're not... /.
Kjære Gud! Hva skjedde med vår båndbredde?
/.!
HELVETES
Babelfish is always funny when reading something translated to your own language.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
Already /.-ed :(
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"?
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
...John Holmes. I don't know if that means that I have a lot of wood or am just very stiff*.
* JH is dead, for those of you slow on the uptake.
I should point out that I didn't even consider uploading anything indecent until I was warned against doing so. What the hell can be indecent about a face? Then I thought about it for a minute. Hey, what celebrity does my ass most resemble? A bit more thinking, and I realized that I could get instantly matched to Darl McBride by uploading a pic of my schlong.
;)
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.
So if somebody else had facial features proportional to yours, since that implies that "size" vectors are multiplied by a common scalar, can the system differentiate between you and that other guy?
Time to get my tin foil hat on.
It's like this: Herregud, hva skjedde med oppkoblinga vår?! Den beste delen av det er at det er 17. mai, nasjonaldagen, så VG sin sysadmin er garantert ikke på jobb :) stakkars... :D
...that the celebrity I most resemble is Dennis Franz's ass!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
in this context: med = to (our bandwidth)
usually, it means with.
But I'll get this up soon, I promise. It's about time I gave back to the community.
They may be voluntarily doing a beta test, but we're giving them an involuntary stress-test.
They failed.
probably too late for anyone to see this, but look what I found: an open implementation hosted on sourceforge
Den beste delen av det er at det er 17. mai, nasjonaldagen,
;) Försök på engelska.
Jag tror inte du behöver förklara vad den 17:e maj innebär för folk som ändå kan läsa din norska.
It would be interesting to have them not limit the matches returned to just celebrities, but to return matches to other users of the system. Then you could see if you have an evil (or good) twin out there somewhere.
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ventet bare på at noen skulle prøve med babelfish på den :)
I look just like Michael Jackson!
oh noes
Hardly any American slashdotters will have heard of the band Hear'Say, formed through reality TV show 'Popstars' (pretty much the same drill as Pop Idol). The band split up quite soon after being chosen as the winners of the show (surprise surprise).
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):
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Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
There has already been research on partially "anonymizing" eigenface data to the point where it is useful but does not provide 24/7-everywhere-people-go tracking.
May we never see th
a sourceforge copy of similar software is very useful
This software is a big fake! I just uploaded my picture, and it match it to..... .....ME!
So I look most like me, do'h! I'm glad I found that out.
Can I get a list of people that have returned matches to Angelina Jolie?
:-)
Just trying to serve the public good.
Slightly chilly feeling as a Brit when the software immediately matches my face with another Brit. (Brett Anderson)
However....clicking on "More likenesses" matches me next with Yasser Arafat!!!
Guess it's time for some extensive plastic surgery!
I dont think i look like Dennis Rodman at all....
Trying this with photos of celebrities... I find that George W Bush (picture from the Wikipedia article) looks like: Olof Palme ("Tidligere statsminister, Sverige") and Martin Luther King.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
http://www.visi.com/~drow/ampere/
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
I don't think we have much to worry about in the face-recognition department... I actually tried with a picture of Bill Gates, and they matched it to "Steinar Bastesen", a Norwegian fisherman and member of parliament, even though they've got Bill Gates in their archives...
-- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
Apparently I look like John Travolta - I'm now certain that this site is some kind of Scientologist conspiracy.
I submitted a few different photos of myself, and was variously matched with David Lee Roth, Ethan Hawke, Michael Jordan, and David Hyde Pierce. In watching the animation flipping back and forth between and Mr. Jordan, I could see why the machine matched us: the angle of the photo and the line of our smiles were the same. Same with my match to Mr. Pierce. If this is the state of the technology, I don't think there's much use for it yet in identifying crmininals.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
at 18:00 GMT
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::Cynthia Nixon
75::Adam Malysz
72::Roar Ljøkelsøy
72::Nicolas Cage
72::Gisele Bündchen
72::Austin Peck
71::Noah Wyle
71::Holly Marie Combs
71::Carrie-Anne Moss
71::Alanis Morissette
70::Rodney Omdal Karlsen
70::Dennis Rodman
69::Diego Maradona
68::David Schwimmer
67::Glenn Solberg
66::Mimi Rogers
66::Daniel Franck
66::Bjørn Floberg
65::Thor Hushovd
65::Mark Vanderloo
64::Mary J. Blige
64::Marcus Schenkenberg
Assuming, my scripting skills are good
[StolenSig] No I am not bored [/ StolenSig]
Why is it that the first thought that popped into my head was linear algebra?
Eigenface
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
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Thx for the tip. Uploading a picture of Brad Pitt, reveals that he s in fact Michael J Fox.
Conspiracy!
The database of faces to be compared to is mostly full of nordic people I've never heard of.
The best match for Saddam Hussein is what, 2 years old? =)
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!
Tried it with a picture of Adolf Hitler, said it matched David Hasselhoff....then tried it with Margaret Thatcher and it matched Naomi Campbell...surely there is somebody with a sick sense of humor really making the matches. Though then again, I do hear Hasselhoff is popular in Europe.
Adolph Hitler and Camilla Parker Bowles !?!
Daryl McBride ;)
I sh*t you not--my #5 match was Lorenzo Lamas, and the "next closest" was _Ariel Sharon_. I'm not saying that it's really _nothing but_ a random image picker under the hood...only that the results they're generating right now are no more useful (and no more accurate) than one.
After seeing this one, I'm skeptical. http://starmatch.vg.no/browse.asp?person=1c1d2dabc 6b253ba7946345686f858c1&index=10
This was most hilarious! Apparently I resemble J. Lo (not on a good day, folks), my 12 year old looks like Don Johnson, my dog looks like Marlon Brando... But i am most afraid my cat looks like the President of China. That explains a lot about the cat.
I always knew there was something familiar about Alec Baldwin!
Babies are cute because they have to be.
Hey what's that in english? Come on guys, this is slashdot, you gotta keep it in English. Else Dubya will seize the face-matcher as a Patriot Act useful-tool.
Some atheists bear a striking ressemblance too!