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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.
And it suggested This picture ...
So if I upload a picture of my ass, do they match it to Darl McBride?
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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.
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!
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
I don't think it'd be very difficult to identify these people if they're wearing tin foil hats in their pictures as you say.
[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
I matched Osama Bin Laden. I always wondered why I was strip-searched every time I flew on an airline.
Has anyone mirrored this story? I want to read who I look like!
It is very clever automation.
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.
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.
...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.
But I'll get this up soon, I promise. It's about time I gave back to the community.
Apparently I look like John Travolta - I'm now certain that this site is some kind of Scientologist conspiracy.