Fetch - innovation from Microsoft, which will pick up your dog in your photo

It is said that the dogs always look like their owners. In this article you will learn about the web service and mobile application for the iPhone, which are loaded with photo of a person to help him choose the most suitable dog.

Microsoft has lately there are more fun projects not related to Windows and Microsoft Office. For example, one of the divisions of the company under the name Project Oxford conducts interesting studies in the field of image recognition. we're already familiar with one of these experiments to determine age on the basis of photos in this article. And today we want to present you a new interesting project of this laboratory. With Fetch you will be able not only to determine the breed of any dog, but also to find a four-legged pet, the most suitable to its image.

Fetch - is an application for the iPhone, which can analyze the content of the photograph taken by the camera or downloaded from the gallery of the device, and find in it the characteristics belonging to different species dogs. The program is in its database the most suitable for these signs of breeds of dog. Here is the video showing how it works.

As you can see, the program can be offered as a model, and a picture of man. Fetch, of course, recognize the person in the photo and give humorous suggestion, what breed is best suited this person. Download this app on your smartphone, you can here.

In addition to the mobile application, Fetch operation can be tested directly in the browser. To do this you must go to a special website What-Dog.netIt is offering roughly the same capabilities as the mobile application. For the experiments, you can choose one of the available dogs photos, find any image on the web by using the search bar, or upload your own picture.

After a brief testing I found that the Fetch dog understands just perfect. In any case, all downloaded pictures I found the program clearly defined the dogs and their breed properly. But the selection of the most suitable species for photos human occasionally difficult to perceive without a smile. How do you, for example, such a choice?

And what results were you? Share your experiences and the most fun shots in the comments!