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Face recognition hints

Started by Raphaël Pinson on Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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Hello,

In the last year, I've been using Google Photos' face recognition to identify people in old pictures. That's quite limited though, as it only works on private pictures in my albums, and there's tons of pictures all over the net that might feature some of my ancestors…

Geni has a great collection of pictures already tagged with known profiles. It would be great if this database could be used to power public face recognition API (see https://findface.pro/en/solutions/face-recognition-for-person-ident... for example).

Just like Geni is already giving hints of matching profiles on MyHeritage, it could analyze known collections of historical pictures (and let people upload their own, or provide an API allowing to match a picture against the Geni database of known faces) and suggest faces detected in these pictures, to be confirmed by users (based on dates, locations, other people in the pic, etc.).

What are your thoughts?

I think it is one of the great ideas presented to GENI... Not sure what type of power AND capacity something like that might require - BUT a GREAT idea !!!

For the record, I've started a proof-of-concept a few days ago, using historical pictures from Flickr as a source.

You can test it at https://raphink.github.io/find-my-ancestor/

Feedback welcome!

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