The Celebrity in You

Last night my friend John Lee sent me a link to a face recognition site (MyHeritage.com) that is more addictive than a can of condensed milk when you are depressed. Basically, you upload a photo to the site and it uses algorithms to analyze the face(s) in the photo and compare them to a huge database. The system then identifies the people in the database that most closely match the face(s) you submitted, along with a similarity score.

The site was designed for use with genealogy work with the idea that you can scan photos of everyone in your family and the program will automatically recognize them when subsequent photos are uploaded. It will also recognize people that may be related to you based on their facial algorithms, so you can potentially find long-lost relatives and bastard children...

The really cool thing about this site, though, is that they maintain a huge celebrity database so you can "find the celebrity in you." This is the super addictive part. You upload your photo and the program identifies the celebrities that have the most similar facial traits based on the algorithms. The results are really entertaining.

After submitting many different photos of myself, the verdict is:

1. Beyoncé (70% - 74%)
2. Jessica Alba (68% - 72%)
3. Mischa Barton (64% - 70%)
4. Eva Longoria (62% - 68%)
5. Mariah Carey (62% - 68%)

Other frequent matches include Penelope Cruz, Eva Peron, and Halle Berry.

Apparently, I have the face of an ethnic girl (with the exception of Mischa Barton). I love it!
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Find out what celebrity you look like here:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&restore