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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.

  2. Re:What is this has got to do with MS's core busin by ModernGeek · · Score: 2

    It will be a good headline whenever the the inevitable celebrity love-child finds his or her father through this tool.

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  3. Caitlyn Jenner & Jessica Lange Twin Score: 93% by theodp · · Score: 3, Funny

    TWINS OR NOT? Score for Caitlyn Jenner & Jessica Lange = 93%, "almost identical".

  4. here is the missing link from the summary by Noah+Haders · · Score: 2

    hot old do I look website: http://how-old.net/
    twins or not website: http://twinsornot.net/

    i didn't try the second one, but I tried the how old and it was pretty neat. MS has some smart people at microsoft research, and the PHBs seem to be doing the right thing and giving these people latitude to do their own thing their own way.

  5. Slashdotted, now how busy is that site Mat? by Ropati · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mat notes how Azure is handling the load after the first few hours:

    http://www.matvelloso.com/2015...

    Mat,

    How is the load, now that you've been Slashdotted?

    Is this still within a personal budget?

    How about a report on how much this would cost the average Joe if he put it in the cloud and it went viral? Do you have a cost graph to go with the rest of the Azure Web App?

    If you are going to chortle about the ease of Azure, perhaps you should be more specific about the pricing. I love the ease, but I fear the the cost.

    Ropati

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    1. Re:Slashdotted, now how busy is that site Mat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      According to the article you linked, "the S3 pricing tier the server is sitting comfortably with 13% CPU usage and just one instance". He also turned on auto-scale which will deploy more instances if needed (with Azure, auto-scale is turned off by default).

      According to the Microsoft Azure rate card, an S3 instance is $0.2035/hr which is approximately ~$152 per month.

      Assuming the application scales linearly (it appears to), 230,000 = 13% CPU (from the article you linked), the application is CPU-bound, and a server maxes out at 90%, it will cost him approximately $152 per 1.5 million users. Is this within a personal budget? Definitely.

  6. Re:What is this has got to do with MS's core busin by The+New+Guy+2.0 · · Score: 2

    This could lead to an era where your age on your registered account is used for censorship, rather than a parent getting the ability to leave TV-MA banned after a kid turns 18... remember kids, set a password you don't know and lock your TV on "receives everything" before your parent gets to take it out of the box.

  7. Triplets !! by invictusvoyd · · Score: 3, Funny

    I gots positive match for an image of a giant turd and the Microsoft logo . It also matched Bono from U2.

  8. Does not support genitals by Mike+Sheen · · Score: 2

    I tried, and it only accepts faces. Don't ask.

  9. Re:Not for the NSA by umghhh · · Score: 2

    Probably true. For NSA it would be more efficient to rip off DBs of driving license issuing authorities around the world.