The funny app Fetch, the latest from Microsoft finds your canine look-alike
It’s cool and all the more fun finding your perfect canine look-alike an app away. Microsoft’s latest machine learning technique application Fetch can make you have some serious laugh over and over. Nevertheless, the app also examines which breed your tailed companions belong to, in the same way it works wonders with peeps. If the right match is not found, it draws a close resemble and comes up with the percentage of commonality between the two. On its official website, the software giant calls this new discovery an inspiration from ‘Man’s Best Friend.’
Fetch comes next in the series of HowOld.net, TwinsOrNot.net, MyMoustache.net and Mimicker Alarm, from the same house. The first in the row, HowOld.net was too popular for it recognised a person’s age from the photos. Disappointingly, it resulted in exasperations than exultance as the accuracy factor went for a toss with badly-lit and ill-framed pictures. MyMoustache guessed the amount of a person’s facial hair for a fund-raising initiative Movember. TwinsOrNot recognised how two people resembled each other.
Interestingly enough, popular figures and celebs from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to reality star Kim Kardashian have been tested on the Fetch platform. Clinton was found to be a sassy and loud ‘highland terrier’ while Karadashian was identified ‘a smart, friendly and easy-going poodle’. The app launch came at a time of the American Kennel Club’s ‘meet and compete’ and the Westminster kennel club dog show. Much homework and research had gone behind the creation of the database to generate results. Opinions of kennel clubs and dog experts are taken by team Fetch and they keep on updating the information. To satisfy users, before the launch, it tested hundreds of images of multiple breeds to get the app accustomed to the features of each. A machine learning technique ‘deep neural network’ is in play on Fetch. This is an advanced stage of artificial intelligent programmes expected to have lot many futuristic prospects.
How it works All that the user needs to do is upload an image into the app and sit back. It goes for a scan. The result shows the name of the dog breed, percentage of similarity along with a brief description of the general traits that suits the most.
Where to find Fetch is accessible for free on iOS app store. For other platforms it can be reached out from What-Dog.net.
So why wait Give it a try and have fun sharing your doggie match with friends on social networks.
