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Microsoft Tries To Guess Relatives With "Twins or Not"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-the-doppleganger dept.

mikejuk writes: Hot on the heels of their popular "How Old Do I Look" website, Microsoft has released a tool called "Twins or Not." Powered by Microsoft’s Project Oxford Face API, the site lets people upload a pair of photos to the web and get back a similarity score. In a blog post Mat Velloso, Senior Software Development Engineer at the Technical Evangelism Development group at Microsoft, talks about how he put the program together in just four hours.

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  1. Re:What is this has got to do with MS's core busin by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they're developing facial recognition algorithms, and launching fun websites is a way to get a variety of real-world inputs and increase their test data.