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

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

  3. 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

    --
    machinator omnis sine licentia
  4. 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.