After all, this is a feature primarily targeted toward stoking people's interest in art. From there you can flick through multiple alleged matches, or tap on the surfaced artworks for more information and to view them in their entirety. Results are cropped in on the animal artwork and presented side by side with your pet's portrait, so you can see exactly how much Google messed up.

Everything else from breed to build to patterning was so far removed from the original that you'd be unlikely to draw a connection between the animals if you weren't told there was one. Mashable's tests largely surfaced animals that bore only a passing resemblance to uploaded pets, in that the supplied photograph and presented artworks did all feature a lightish dog with floppy ears, or a brownish cat with eyes. Unfortunately, there appears to be a world of possibility hidden in that phrase. You can also upload a picture from your album, if your cat isn't feeling particularly photogenic.įrom there, Google's trained computer vision algorithm will evaluate the image to determine what type of creature it's looking at, before a machine learning algorithm sifts through tens of thousands of artworks to find animals that 'look most similar.'

Simply download the Google Arts & Culture app, hit the camera button at the bottom of the screen, select the green Pet Portraits filter, then take a photo of your pet. The app's new Pet Portraits feature operates in much the same way as the old Art Selfie feature from 2018. The Google Arts & Culture app has been updated to be able to identify photos of animals, find paintings that are reportedly similar to said animals, and then show you said artwork.

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