Google Arts and Culture App gets a new feature

Google is advancing its ‘Arts & Culture’ app to come up with a feature that makes use of facial recognition. The fun part about this is that it will be able to find whether your selfie is similar to any portrait in any museum. Once the app finds a match, it will show the name of the painter and the museum it comes from. Google Arts & Culture has collaborated with more than 1,200 international museums and galleries from 70 countries.

Google’s official webpage describe this process by stating the process. It read, "For example, a computer might be trained to recognise the common patterns of shapes and colours that make up a digital image of a face, the same pattern recognition technology that powers facial detection can help a computer to understand characteristics of the face it has detected. For example, there might be certain patterns that suggest a face is wearing a beard or glasses, or that it has attributes like those."

US saw the free app taking the ‘Number 1’ spot on Google Play in the US as soon as the update was available. This latest update has been introduced only for select locations (users in India will unfortunately be deprived of this).