WhoCamera is the Shazam of Celebrities
Joey Haar — July 26, 2017 — Pop Culture
References: unoemon & producthunt
Everyone knows the feeling of blanking on someone's name at an inopportune moment, and WhoCamera is a new app that solves that problem — when it comes to celebrities at least. The app brands itself as 'Shazam for celebrity faces,' and it uses image-recognition technology to identify celebrities and tie them to things like IMDb and social media accounts.
Just like Shazam, WhoCamera is designed to work in real-life settings. While it can analyze still images, it's just as effective with moving ones. In other words, WhoCamera could analyze a scene from a TV show and find the right celebrity without users even having to press pause. The app also gives a percentage of certainty with the analysis, which runs as high as 99.9 percent if the footage is clear enough.
Just like Shazam, WhoCamera is designed to work in real-life settings. While it can analyze still images, it's just as effective with moving ones. In other words, WhoCamera could analyze a scene from a TV show and find the right celebrity without users even having to press pause. The app also gives a percentage of certainty with the analysis, which runs as high as 99.9 percent if the footage is clear enough.
Trend Themes
1. Celebrity Face Recognition - Using image-recognition technology to identify celebrities in real-time.
2. Real-time Celebrity Identification - Providing instant identification of celebrities in moving images without the need for pausing.
3. Certainty Analysis in Celebrity Recognition - Providing a percentage of certainty in the analysis of celebrity identification.
Industry Implications
1. Entertainment - Opportunity for an app that enhances the viewers' celebrity experience during TV shows and movies.
2. Marketing and Advertising - Disruptive innovation opportunity to leverage celebrity recognition to personalize marketing campaigns and endorsements.
3. Social Media - Potential to integrate celebrity identification technology into social media platforms for enhanced user experiences.
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