Google Arts & Culture App Can Match Your Selfie to Fine Art

The Web giant has added a 'new and experimental' feature to its Google Arts & Culture app, which will match your selfie with a museum portrait.

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Google has a fun new way to get people interested in fine arts.

The Web giant has added a "new and experimental" feature to its Google Arts & Culture app, which will match your selfie with a museum portrait.

To try it for yourself, download the app for iOS or Android, and scroll down until you see the heading "Is your portrait in a museum?" Then, press "Get Started" and use the camera in the app to snap a selfie. Google uses computer vision technology to compare your selfie to thousands of historical artworks provided by its partner museums to see if any look like you.

"When you take a photo with this feature, your photo is sent to Google to find artworks that look like you," Google explains in the app. The Web giant says it "won't use data from your photo for any other purpose and will only store your photo for the time it takes to search for matches."

When I tried the app on Monday morning, Google spit out several different portraits that vaguely resembled me, showing a percentage match for each one. According to Google's computer vision technology, my photo most closely resembled the 1876 paining "A Neapolitan Woman" by Friedrich Dürck.

You can re-take your selfie as many times as you like, and you may get different results when you try different angles.

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