iPhoto 9 with face recognition!

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I was watching TV the other night, and saw an ad about the face recognition in iPhoto 9. I have a copy, but hadn't been aware of that feature, so I went off to play with it. It's actually surprisingly good, and makes guesses of people's faces fairly well, even at odd orientation, partially obscured, bad lighting, poor focus, etc. A quick way to catalogue a lot of photographs by who is in them.

As I have photographs containing my friends and family as well as celebrities, the opportunities for mismatch are rife. iPhoto does do a good job of recognizing faces sideways and upside down, by the way.

Um, no.

Dorothy is also as cute as a button, but this is Jessica Alba.

I take it iPhoto does not include text recognition, or this would have been a giveaway.

Bwahahaha so not!

It nailed me so well it didn't even have to ask. The girl, however appealing, is not Jamie Lynn.

I tried one of the cast of Zoey 101:

Well, it got Jamie Lynn right for once. But wha?

This program seems to share my fondness for Jamie Lynn, but this is just wrong.

Bzzzt! Zero for four. Try as I may, I can't see the similarity between Piper Perabo and Nisha.

Oh, come on! That's not even human!

Dude. Not even close. Sheesh!

Okay, at least I can see where it got confused here. Kurt, you see, wears similar dark glasses:

No, but thank you for playing.