03.05.2015 15024
The guys from Microsoft, it turns out, also have a sense of humor. They presented an Internet service that can or supposedly can determine a person’s age from his photograph. It's literally called "How many years". It was created, however, not for fun, but to demonstrate the capabilities of the cloud platform Azure.
The idea, it must be said, is not new at all; a similar function has long been implemented, for example, in Xiaomi. Do you think Microsoft has decided to offer more advanced algorithms for determining age from photos? Very doubtful. So far everything looks like ordinary PR.
If there's one thing How-Old.net lacks, it's accuracy. The service’s database already contains several template photos of cute, smiling people, whose age the robot determines more or less correctly, but try uploading ordinary photos and you will see for yourself that everything is not so simple.
How-Old.net is wrong not only with age, but also with gender. In some cases, the error can reach 30 years, in addition, different photos the same people “according to” the service have different ages.
It is not surprising that many are expressing their outrage. Still, it’s somehow insulting if some robot adds a couple of decades to you, 20-25 years old, and even forcibly changes your gender.
It's funny, you can't say anything. But it seems very doubtful that Microsoft started all this for the sake of entertainment alone. While users around the world continue to have fun, the company's specialists are receiving more and more data to improve the algorithms of the detection system, which will be used in various technological fields in the future.
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How-Old.net does not yet claim to be an accurate tool and exists rather as a free entertainment project. Visitors upload their photos and share the results to impress friends, or to amuse them when the service makes a mistake. But How-Old.net is based on the power of the Azure cloud platform, and its algorithms are constantly being improved.
The site is easy to use both on a computer and on mobile device. The developers have added several template photographs of smiling people, on whose faces you can test the accuracy of age determination. You can also experiment with celebrity images or, of course, use your own photos. Microsoft claims that it does not store uploaded photos.
As for accuracy, in my case, out of ten test images, the algorithm was able to correctly determine the age on only four of them. But the error of the service turned out to be small: the robot added or missed only 2-3 years.
Microsoft did not limit itself to the site and added support for the technologies behind How-Old.net to its own Sprinkles mobile application. This program can detect emotions and apply them to users’ faces decorative elements like hats and masks. Alas, for now it is only available for iOS devices connected to the US App Store.
It is worth noting that this is not the first implementation of such an idea. For example, the cameras of some Xiaomi smartphones They have long been able to determine the age and gender of a person from a photograph.
You can also find great amount applications with similar functions in Google Play and App Store. But I was unable to find any worthy ones among them. They either don’t determine age at all from photos, despite the description, or they do it very poorly.
Hello! Is it possible somehow using programs or a website?
Age according to photo
Yes, there are several ways to recognize age from a photograph. But I want to warn you that none of the methods described in this article gives a 100% result.
I think it's only a matter of time. A lot of money is being invested in the development of facial recognition technologies, and probably in the near future, better services will appear. In the meantime, let's look at what tools are offered to us today.
Age by photo using the Microsoft website
Recently, Microsoft Corporation created a new program (online service) that allows you to determine the age and gender of a person from a photograph in just a few seconds.
To determine your age, you need to go to the website and click on the “Use your own photo” button to upload a photo. After this, the service algorithm will calculate and show your estimated age and gender.
Website age by photo Of course, this online service sometimes misses the mark by not accurately determining age and produces results that fluctuate within about five years.
This site can also determine the age and gender of a group of people. As shown in the photo below. Everything is much better with sex determination; my experiments showed only positive results.
Age according to Microsoft photo In addition to a person's age and gender, the system can compare various photos and determine whether they depict the same person.
According to the developers, the site was created with the introduction the latest tools facial recognition Face detection API, intelligent technologies machine learning, Bing API search tools and PowerBI analytics. Some of the facial recognition technology was developed in scientific center Microsoft Research.
Age by photo using MIUI camera
The standard MIUI firmware camera can also determine age from a photograph. You can find out in detail about the standard Miui firmware camera on the developers’ website by clicking on this one.
In my opinion, all this does not look serious yet, but as I said above, “The future is not far off.” With the release of new technologies, this article will be supplemented. If you know of other services or facial recognition programs, write in the comments.
Recently, manufacturers have developed a large number of programs, each of them has its own purpose. One of these developments is services that can determine a person’s age from a photograph. Below, several resources for determining a person's age will be described in detail, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to work with them.
Determining age from a photo is not like that simple task, to the final result influenced by many factors, For example, plastic surgery, makeup and physiological characteristics of the human body. For some people, their appearance does not correspond to their real age, and therefore it is quite difficult to determine it. But nevertheless, there are programs that can find out age parameters from one single photo.
Service How Old
This site is developed by Microsoft. It uses machine algorithms to determine a person's age from an online photo. The scan is carried out according to the shape of the face, the shape of the nose, mouth, position of the eyes, eyebrows and ears is analyzed. At the same time, the developers emphasize that the service doesn't allow Find out exactly the required parameters. It is made with the purpose of entertaining users.
The service is presented not only as a web version, but also mobile application. When used for the first time, so that the user can be convinced that the program is working, templates of photographs of people will be presented that can be scanned. Followed by step-by-step instruction, how to use the web version of How Old, because mobile is used only on iOS and is linked to American iTunes.
Instructions:
You can also see the photo instructions below:
PicTriev
The online service primarily intended for searching for your double. PicTriev can also determine the age and gender of a person from a photo. To provide best result, must only be used high-quality photograph. At the same time, the service more accurately determines celebrity age parameters, giving out the most accurate results. When uploading a photo “unknown” to the service, the error is quite large.
To find out how old you look, you should follow these instructions:
How Old Do You Look Like
This program, which determines age from a photo, is developed for the Android operating system. The name of the service translates as “How old am I” or “How old do you look.” The results obtained using it are approximate, the error is quite significant. For the photo test, the following parameters are used: wrinkles, hair condition, shape of eyes, mouth and ears. To determine the number of years using How Old Do You Look like, you need to have a clear photo, without noise and where the face takes up half of the entire image.
Instructions:
How to determine age without services
All of the above resources work with the following parameters, with the help of which the final result is formed:
- wrinkles. At 20 years old, skin unevenness is not as noticeable as at 30 years old. At 50 years old, wrinkles are much more pronounced. The program takes into account these features and generates the final result;
- the algorithms used for scanning are mainly based on gray tone analysis. Let’s say that if the original photo size is no more than 100 pixels, then each of the 10,000 will have its own shade, from the lightest to the darkest. The program begins to compare several pixels darker and lighter from each other and determines the age parameters;
- also compared the size of the face, the position of the nose and eyes, the shape of the mouth and ears. Software takes into account these features, since they change significantly throughout a person’s life;
- If a woman uses a lot of cosmetics, then it is difficult to find out the number of years using the software method, since the skin texture will have a small number of flaws.
Using the information indicated above, you can try to find out the number of years yourself from the photo. This is quite difficult, but quite possible.