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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by theOnliest on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:16PM (#10361085)
I tried with a picture of Aziz Ansari (https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/aziz_ansari.jp...) and it guessed Jim O'Heir, which I got a kick out of.
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by zacharypinter on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:12PM (#10361041)
I tried this image:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2MjQ2MzAwOF5BMl5Ban...

And it suggested Nick Offerman :)

Cool exploration though!

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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by progmal1 on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:09PM (#10361003)
It seems to fail (in funny ways) on actors that are not in Parks and Recreation.
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by TGRedBaron on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:11PM (#10361025)
Based on the post it was only trained on those actors
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by progmal1 on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:18PM (#10361096)
I get that, but it is still a bit funky that it thinks that Morgan freeman is Alison Brie.
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by doppenhe on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:10PM (#10361019)
Most ML models will only work with what they were trained on. In this case only actors from parks and rec
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by progmal1 on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:14PM (#10361065)
Shouldn't there be a measure of error to decide that it is not any of of them?
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by therobot24 on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:14PM (#10361635)
It's not really a ML model - just LBP features...
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by gpmcadam on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:22PM (#10362261)
Not sure what it's trying to suggest ;) http://i.imgur.com/KfGH6Rb.jpg
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by NwmG on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:25PM (#10362285)
I tried three pictures of Nick Offerman, and it only got one.
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Re:Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast fr... by kerr23 on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:17PM (#10361661)
Didn't recognize L'il Sebastian. Total Fail. =)
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