Marriage portal uses face-restructuring technology used by cops to get you a celebrity look-alike partner
Marriage portal uses face-restructuring technology used by cops to get you a celebrity look-alike partner
Wanted groom, tall, dark, handsome and very rich is passe. The devil, these, days, is in the detail. And so you should spell out what exactly you mean by handsome and beautiful Brad Pitt or Abhishek Bachchan. Angelina Jolie or Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. And bharatmatrimony.com will dig them out for you. If they are still single, that is.
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The marriage portal zeroes in on partners resembling celebrities with the help of a facial search technology that works on the dimensions of a celebrity's face, measures distances between the various features and matches these with photos on the matrimony portal. All this, at no cost.
The technology is similar to the face-restructuring technology used by the police department. "This is our attempt to go beyond the normal search options like caste, religion, age, profession and others. Many people wish to marry a person who looks like a celebrity. It is this need we are trying to satisfy," said the Bangalore-based Murugavel Janakiraman (27), chief executive of Consim Info that owns the site. The company worked on the project for six months before formally launching it. This is the first for a website.
"From the day we started this service, it has been extremely popular. We would generally get about 800 or 900 hits in a day but now it's gone up to 1,500-2,000 hits every day," he says.
However, bride- and groom-hunters may be in for au00a0 shock as the technology is based on the geometrical dimensions of a face. For instance, a search may throw up the picture of a woman resembling Aishwarya Rai without her hour-glass figure.
"I think it's a very interesting concept, though I didn't find anyone looking exactly like Kareena Kapoor. I found someone who looks exactly like Ramya. I'm sure this will become a big rage, because people always have secret ambitions and want to be stars in real life," adds Janakiraman.
