Who’s your celebrity doppelganger? Artificial intelligence tool matches your face with the stars
A TOP tech firm has designed a cool new app which uses artificial intelligence to scan pictures and work out the name of the celebrities shown in them.
But it's also very useful for anyone who wants to work out which superstar they look like.
The app is called Clarifai and is primed to recognise a total of 10,000 celebrity faces.
While similar apps have offered the ability to compare yourself to stars, Clarifai is more accurate when it comes to working out the identity of celebs in pictures.
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We scanned some of The Sun Online's most beautiful people into the system.
While some of the app's results were impressive, it did make some bizarre decisions about certain celebrity resemblances - it told us one heavily bearded journalist looked like either Zara Phillips or Justin Timberlake.
Other Sun staff were compared to film stars and Formula 1 drivers.
We also ran a few British celebs through the system to see if it recognised them.
It had no difficulty working out who Katie Price was, proving her international appeal.
Sadly, it struggled with Peter Andre and Ainsley Harriott, comparing them to two American stars.
Matthew Zeiler, Clarifai’s CEO and founder, appeared at a tech conference to show off his clever software.
It was shown a picture of Monáe from a poster for the film Hidden Figures, but the computer thought it was comedy legend Chevy Chase, .
We’re not sure whether Janelle (or Chevy) would be flattered by the comparison.
“Recognising faces is a common artificial-intelligence task, but recognising who, specifically, is in an image can be much trickier, especially in different lighting conditions or when the subjects are not staring straight at a camera or are occluded by other people or objects,” an expert from MIT Technology review added.
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It was released to show off Clarifai’s facial recognition technology and demonstrate how it is training artificial intelligence to recognise faces.
This sort of technology has a variety of uses. It could replace passwords, for instance, by letting people open up computers and phones by taking pictures of themselves.
It would also be useful in surveillance systems because it would allow cameras to recognise suspects.
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