: "He's not heavy, he's my brother"; or, Worf is a white woman
So earlier this evening, in my travels through the internet, I came across a link to the site MyHeritage.com where, among other (mostly less interesting) things, visitors can generate a collage of celebrities to whom they look most similar.
I tried using photos of myself, but the facial-recognition software at MyHeritage can apparently only recognise faces turned directly into the camera, and I tend to have mostly photos of myself in profile or with something in front of my head. Happily, I also had this photo of my brother wearing the uniform costume I got for him when I went to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas a few years ago1.
Now, I'd already been underwhelmed by the power of MyHeritage's facial-recognition software; what can I say, I watch Law & Order (all three flavours), Criminal Minds, Dexter and a half-dozen-odd other crime dramas2, and they have led me to believe that facial-recognition software is only slightly less awesome than God.
The program recognised my brother's face. It also recognised the face of the cardboard Lietenant Worf my brother was posed beside... and because Worf was on the left, it ignored the other face, even though the other face was in the centre of the photo and an actual human and stuff.
But I figured, what the hell -- let's see what celebrities Michael Dorn looks like when he's in Worf makeup. ( Disturbing information behind cut. Also, video. )
So, there you have it: If you were traumatised4, I refer you to![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
thete1 and petronelle for redress.
( Footnotes )
So earlier this evening, in my travels through the internet, I came across a link to the site MyHeritage.com where, among other (mostly less interesting) things, visitors can generate a collage of celebrities to whom they look most similar.
I tried using photos of myself, but the facial-recognition software at MyHeritage can apparently only recognise faces turned directly into the camera, and I tend to have mostly photos of myself in profile or with something in front of my head. Happily, I also had this photo of my brother wearing the uniform costume I got for him when I went to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas a few years ago1.
Now, I'd already been underwhelmed by the power of MyHeritage's facial-recognition software; what can I say, I watch Law & Order (all three flavours), Criminal Minds, Dexter and a half-dozen-odd other crime dramas2, and they have led me to believe that facial-recognition software is only slightly less awesome than God.
The program recognised my brother's face. It also recognised the face of the cardboard Lietenant Worf my brother was posed beside... and because Worf was on the left, it ignored the other face, even though the other face was in the centre of the photo and an actual human and stuff.
But I figured, what the hell -- let's see what celebrities Michael Dorn looks like when he's in Worf makeup. ( Disturbing information behind cut. Also, video. )
So, there you have it: If you were traumatised4, I refer you to
thete1 and petronelle for redress.( Footnotes )