This is a very cool use of facial recognition. It could also be expanded to the complete history of photographs. So lets say trying to identify all people on all historical photographs. Wouldn't it be funny to see some of the same people pop up in different pictures around the world in events that were previously thought unrelated?
For privacy issues you'd want to limit this to periods in time that are far back enough for most people to have passed though. So I could imagine the Second World War to be a (somewhat arbitrary) limit for now.
This limit would eventually need to be expanded, because I wouldn't want my photographs to be examined like this in 70 years time.
Given the likelihood of coincidences like that actually happening, you'd surely end up finding lots and lots of pairs of completely unrelated people that look remarkably similar, with no way of knowing if any of them are actually the same person.
> This limit would eventually need to be expanded, because I wouldn't want my photographs to be examined like this in 70 years time.
Wait, why are you fine with doing it with other people’s 70 year old pictures, but you don’t want people 70 years from now to do it with your pictures?
> This is a very cool use of facial recognition. It could also be expanded to the complete history of photographs. So lets say trying to identify all people on all historical photographs. Wouldn't it be funny to see some of the same people pop up in different pictures around the world in events that were previously thought unrelated?
My issue with that is faces aren't that unique, so you might get unrelated people identified as the same individual.
I have seen 100 years commonly used as a limit for census data and the like. It seems like a good number as any individuals are very unlikely to still be alive. (Those few that are would have been very young).
Do you think there's no risk of harm (or at least inconvenience) for people who are suddenly discovered to be descendents from baddies of History?
I'm sure the Hitlers and Görings of this world changed their names in due time and took steps to insulate themselves and their offspring from their forefathers' bad rep, but what if it turns out your pop-pop was a guard at Auschwitz?
I always though that this was gonna happen in the future. That someone 100 years from now will check zettabytes of videos, pictures, posts and is going to create complete profiles of everyone that has lived in our time.
Each time that you are in the background of a picture of an stranger. In the broad panoramic videos from sport stadiums. From fingerprinting you writing in all social media. From government documentation. From text of other people talking about you... all your digital traces to know who were you.
Now is happening with past pictures, even that there is no so much to mine compared with the present.
Well here's the actual link to the website https://www.civilwarphotosleuth.com/
What I'm curious about is what image recognition system they used to map the faces in the picture?
I thought it would be dlib since that's open-source and very easy to use, but it's actually the Microsoft face recognition API, according to their paper: "Photo Sleuth: Combining Collective Intelligence and
Computer Vision to Identify Historical Portrait", Mohanty et al 2018 http://crowd.cs.vt.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/...
The pictures that jumped to mind for this as a potential social issue aren't the Civil War ones - they're the Jim Crow era lynch mob pictures.
I'd say there's a huge difference between knowing that your (or someone else's) ancestors were terribly racist and knowing that they were involved in murders.
[+] [-] mosselman|7 years ago|reply
For privacy issues you'd want to limit this to periods in time that are far back enough for most people to have passed though. So I could imagine the Second World War to be a (somewhat arbitrary) limit for now.
This limit would eventually need to be expanded, because I wouldn't want my photographs to be examined like this in 70 years time.
[+] [-] jnty|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] GuiA|7 years ago|reply
Wait, why are you fine with doing it with other people’s 70 year old pictures, but you don’t want people 70 years from now to do it with your pictures?
(sorry if I am missing the sarcasm or some such)
[+] [-] laumars|7 years ago|reply
My issue with that is faces aren't that unique, so you might get unrelated people identified as the same individual.
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[+] [-] thanatropism|7 years ago|reply
I'm sure the Hitlers and Görings of this world changed their names in due time and took steps to insulate themselves and their offspring from their forefathers' bad rep, but what if it turns out your pop-pop was a guard at Auschwitz?
[+] [-] kartan|7 years ago|reply
Each time that you are in the background of a picture of an stranger. In the broad panoramic videos from sport stadiums. From fingerprinting you writing in all social media. From government documentation. From text of other people talking about you... all your digital traces to know who were you.
Now is happening with past pictures, even that there is no so much to mine compared with the present.
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I'd say there's a huge difference between knowing that your (or someone else's) ancestors were terribly racist and knowing that they were involved in murders.
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