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Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 16 2018, @05:53AM   
from the hopefully-not-a-dali dept.

takyon writes:

Facial recognition is fun:

If you've ever wondered if there's a museum portrait somewhere that looks like you and you're ready to have your ego crushed, there's now an app for that. Google Arts & Culture's latest update now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. It will then present you and your fine art twin side-by-side, along with a percentage match, and let you share the results on social media, if you dare.

Also at NPR and Alphr.

Related: Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments"

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• Region locked... other races aren't artsy or what? Region locked... other races aren't artsy or what? (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 16 2018, @06:59AM (3 children)

  by c0lo (156) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @06:59AM (#623021) Journal

  I'm not going to install it, much less use it, but I visited the linked Google store page: heaps of comments expressing disappointment about region locking.

  Has Google difficulties in finding art images which will match the skin colour prevalent in the region or what?

  In any case, I'm just curious what Google can make from people from Orient, given that for Apple all Chinese faces look the same [gizmochina.com] and Google managed to classify two black people as gorillas [twitter.com] less than 3 years ago.

  Seems like the classification of dark skinned faces is technically non-trivial [wired.com].

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• Re:Region locked... other races aren't artsy or wh (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:39AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:39AM (#623032)

  If Google is true to form, a heavyset black lady will send in a selfie, and a painting of Gorillas gets matched...

  ( Troll mod expected - but this happened before! [theverge.com])

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• So far, doing worse. Much worse! So far, doing worse. Much worse! (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:23AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:23AM (#623041)

  He's such a...
  https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/01/15/fck-this-app-guy-says-google-app-matched-him-with-this-famous-portrait-pic/ [twitchy.com]

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  • Re:So far, doing worse. Much worse! (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:36PM

    by tibman (134) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:36PM (#623171)

    Actually, it looks like the app is working really well.

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