Art Selfie by Google goes live in Kenya

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]oogle has today launched the Art Selfie, a new tool that connects art lovers with thousands of art pieces that resemble their faces from art galleries across the world.

Flowing out of an experiment in the US that began back in January and now officially available globally, Art Selfie is a tool powered by computer vision technology based on machine learning.

When you take a selfie, your photo is compared with faces in artworks Google museum partners have provided. After a short moment, you see your results along with a percentage to estimate the visual similarity of each match and your face.

Your selfie becomes a doorway into art — tap on your lookalike to discover more information about it or an artist that perhaps you’ve never heard of before.

Together with partner museums, Google says it is constantly experimenting with new ways for people to discover and interact with art. In the same spirit, keep an eye out for Art Selfie as an option in Google Lens on Android next time you use Lens on artwork.

“The Google Arts & Culture platform hosts millions of artifacts and pieces of art, ranging from prehistory to the contemporary, shared by museums across the world. To ease the prospect of exploring all that art, we dreamt up a fun solution: connect people to art by way of a fundamental artistic pursuit, the search for the self … or, in this case, the selfie,” said Charles Murito, Google Kenya Country Manager.

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Google Arts & Culture puts over a 1,500 museums at your fingertips. It’s an immersive way to explore art, history and wonders of the world from Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings to Mandela’s prison cell. The Google Arts & Culture app is free and available on the web, on iOS and Android.