How to determine which celebrity you look like

Posted on July 5, 2008 at 5:26 am

Do you want to know which celebrity you look like? MyHeritage.com offers a web service that lets you upload your picture and then generates a list of celebrities that look like you.

Are you sure you want to continue? Be warned though, the software is deadly accurate – face recognition is a science and it is not something you can influence by summoning spirits. The result could lead you to depression if you found out you look like someone hideous – but nonetheless the result is amusing! A great way to have proof that you really look like Brad Pitt!

Excited? Open your favorite browser and open the URL below:

http://www.myheritage.com/celebrity-face-recognition

Browses for your favorite photo and then click the Run face recognition! button. You should see the animated facial recognition process while it scans your picture:

The whole process takes only a few seconds depending on your picture’s file size. This is good if you can’t breath while waiting for the result.

After scanning you should see the celebrity you resembled most:

What the?!!?! Donatella Versace?! I knew this is a bad idea!

Go ahead, try scanning pictures of your friends and yourself. This is a great way to enjoy your time online without browsing porn – you know you could lose your job if they catch you browsing porn in your office don’t you?

Besides face recognition, the website also offers other cool functions like creating a celebrity morph of your picture and the baby look-a-like meter that measures which parent resembles the baby’s picture:

Overall, this is a one cool website that you can share to others. If you crave for proof that you look like Tom Cruise then this could be it, just don’t hate me if you see Jack Nicholson instead.