{"id":256,"date":"2008-04-10T10:53:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-04-10T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:53:18","slug":"me-and-kareem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/me-and-kareem\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and Kareem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I teach data mining here at the Tepper School, and one example I use of something that is hard to get computers to do is to recognize faces, a task any 2 month old baby can do reasonably well (at least with regards to mothers).  But it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myheritage.com\">MyHeritage.com<\/a> has this licked:  given a photo, they do a great job of seeing who your celebrity look-alikes are.  And for me, it was uncanny.  I can&#8217;t tell you the number of times I have walked down the street and have people say &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?&#8221;  That&#8217;s assuming they are not mistaking me for the Dalai Lama.  I am glad I now have this picture so I can clear up any confusion:  that is me in the upper left;  Kareem is in the lower left.  Perhaps the easiest way to distinguish is to note that I still have some hair on the top of my head.  Or perhaps that Kareem is the taller.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myheritagefiles.com\/I\/storage\/site1\/files\/33\/14\/52\/331452_5096348751ef74bkdir825.JPG\" align=\"middle\" height=\"574\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out the face recognition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myheritage.com\/face-recognition\">http:\/\/www.myheritage.com\/face-recognition <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now hard at work to create the algorithm to prove my real look-alike is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poster.net\/clooney-george\/clooney-george-photo-george-clooney-6233612.jpg\">George Clooney<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach data mining here at the Tepper School, and one example I use of something that is hard to get computers to do is to recognize faces, a task any 2 month old baby can do reasonably well (at least with regards to mothers). But it seems that MyHeritage.com has this licked: given a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/me-and-kareem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Me and Kareem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-data-mining"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}