Find Your Look-alike in the Art World with the Google Arts & Culture App, Now in India

A contempo update to the Google Arts & Culture app added a absurd new experimental characteristic that allows users to match one of their selfies with an fine art history doppelgänger. While social media has been quite enthusiastic about the new feature over the terminal week, Indian users have not been able to accept fun with it until now.

The experimental feature is at present alive in India and users tin lucifer their selfies with fine art from the collections of museums bachelor on the platform. The characteristic makes use of Google's computer vision engineering to match the user'due south selfie with a famous piece of fine art

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In order to use the feature, all y'all need to do is download the latest version of the Google Arts & Civilisation app. Upon scrolling down of the landing page, you'll be greeted with a "Search with your selfie" menu. Once you click on the 'Get Started' button, y'all'll take to concord to a disclaimer which states that Google won't exist using the image data for any other purpose and volition simply store the photo for the time information technology takes to find the matches. Accepting the disclaimer volition open up the camera and you can so take a selfie with your face inside the indicated space.

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The app and so takes a few seconds to analyze the image and then displays the results. Depending on your selfie, the app will show i or more results with varying degrees of similarity.

The app likewise shows an estimated percentage of visual similarity between the face and the artwork. Through the characteristic, the app connects users to more than 6,000 exhibitions from over i,500 museums around the earth.

"At Google Arts & Culture, our software engineers are always experimenting with new and creative ways to connect you with art and culture. That's how this selfie characteristic came about, too…We created an experiment that matches the selfie with art from the collections of museums on Google Arts & Civilization- and over the past few days, people have taken more than 30 million selfies. Looking at the success in the US, we are excited to roll this feature to other countries, including India", a Google spokesperson said.