Does anyone have any advice or recommendations for the following problem: A site called MyHeritage.com has a function on there that allows you to upload a photo and it matches you to what celebrities you look like. At work we used this recently and charged people for a go for charity. However it seems that there database mainly consisted of US celebs and no cartoon characters. A lot of people said it would have been a lot better if it could match you to imaginary characters too. So with that in mind i wondered whether there is existing software out there for facial recognotion that could be configured to a database of photos that i compile. I wanted to get this done by next year for another charity event we are holding. Any ideas?
yeah, ive used my heritage.com before, i supposedly look like the result of Janet Jackson and David Beckhams child.. but ive never heard of anything like that, ill search around... ill get back to you. EDIT": sorry man, cant find anything.
yeah... no prob, still sorry tho. that is a cool idea, to recognize the face with a cartoon character. Id be a mix of Goofy and Betty Boop ;-) hehe.
It would require some manual programming to make it recognize cartoon characters. Facial-recognition software looks at key elements of the face as subcomponents that stand out - in a sense, it's like the autofocus on a camera, locking onto a certain point. FR just uses many points and correlates their relation to each other. I suppose if you took, say, Homer Simpson and used some reference points on his nose, etc. you could establish a pattern. However, I really don't think too many real-life humans would look enough like Homer to trigger an software anything close to a match.
