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Google Brings Face Recognition and Morphing App to Orkut

Digital Inspiration has noted that Google has added an interesting face morphing app in Orkut. The app takes your profile image from Orkut and smoothly morphs it into your friend’s profile image while filling the path  with public images of other Orkut users who have matching faces.

First, faces are automatically detected in public profile images and normalized for improved contrast and size. Then, for each image, we find other publicly available profile images that are similar to one another. Then, when you pick a friend you want to be your end match, we just hop along similar public images, step-by-step, until the connection is made!

Orkut Launches New Design

Orkutis rolling out a new design this morning, starting with a select number of users. It’s a much-needed change to the previously ugly social network that became unintentionally popular in Brazil. Apart from Brazilians does anyone else actually use Orkut? It is so surprising that Google, the leaders in many markets have never really tried to make an impact on the social networking aspect of the internet!