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Separated at Birth
Website matches your mug with the rich and famous
With the VMAs and Emmys within seven days of each other, celebrities were practically traveling in herds down the red carpet last week. So I decided it was high time I checked in with MyHeritage.com to see which deli tray-munching geniuses I resemble most.
The site, which appears to be a place where people can put together an online family tree or bump into lost relatives, claims that the celebrity face-matching function was created to sharpen MyHeritage's pioneering developments in "extensive face recognition technology." All I know is that it's hilarious, fun, and a little unnerving.
Once you've gone through the simple registration process, hit the "find the celebrity in you" prompt and use the browser to upload a picture of yourself (preferably a front view of your face, with as little expression as possible). Then hit the button and let the ol' face-recognition technology peel through its collection of images of 4,000 men and women of prominence from the last two centuries, until it finds a few that it thinks you resemble.
Then, prepare to be creeped out.
The picture I used is similar to the one that's on my MOLI profile. Sometimes it takes the MyHeritage system a few tries to find a photo it can focus in on — but once it locked in on mine, it produced some pretty interesting results. First of all, it seems to think I'm Japanese. I tried a few different photos and, consistently, a handful of Japanese singers and actresses popped up. In particular, Japanese pop singing sensation Ayumi Hamasaki. She showed up as a match every time. That's fine with me, even though we look nothing alike. She's a babe.
The site, which appears to be a place where people can put together an online family tree or bump into lost relatives, claims that the celebrity face-matching function was created to sharpen MyHeritage's pioneering developments in "extensive face recognition technology." All I know is that it's hilarious, fun, and a little unnerving.
Once you've gone through the simple registration process, hit the "find the celebrity in you" prompt and use the browser to upload a picture of yourself (preferably a front view of your face, with as little expression as possible). Then hit the button and let the ol' face-recognition technology peel through its collection of images of 4,000 men and women of prominence from the last two centuries, until it finds a few that it thinks you resemble.
Then, prepare to be creeped out.
The picture I used is similar to the one that's on my MOLI profile. Sometimes it takes the MyHeritage system a few tries to find a photo it can focus in on — but once it locked in on mine, it produced some pretty interesting results. First of all, it seems to think I'm Japanese. I tried a few different photos and, consistently, a handful of Japanese singers and actresses popped up. In particular, Japanese pop singing sensation Ayumi Hamasaki. She showed up as a match every time. That's fine with me, even though we look nothing alike. She's a babe.
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