New Facial Relationship Recognition
Old school photos are notorious for not providing names of students within a group photo. Would your new facial recognition software be able to take a photo of the adult and locate the picture of them as a child in the school photo?
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I hope FamilySearch will bring useful facial recognition to us. By that, I mean not only able to compare faces in one photo, but to compare faces as broadly as possible. Often photos are multi-generation, or of cousins or even friends. For example, I have a photo taken of three young girls about 1920 that contains my mother (now deceased) and her two friends, one of whom we suspect is my wife's cousin who should also have a photo in FamilySearch of her as an adult. We don't know which girl MAY be my wife's cousin nor who the other girl is, who most likely is also in FamilySearch as they grew up in a small LDS town. Hopefully this facial recognition can help solve cases like this.
-Steve Jones
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You need to add a NOT interested button...very bad optics for us with privacy concerns.
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Re Facial recogition - I agree with adding a not interested button. Also, I would be interested in finding out how people in old photos might be related, but not if this is to assist with developing a product which will be sold to governments or companies for facial recognition purposes.
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You can turn the option off and not receive emails from FamilySearch.
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facial recognition might be useful in your research - it is not the face that is important - it is the history of the face/person that is important to help us know who we are - our place in the history of everyone - help us find our Grandfathers and Grandmothers our ancestry
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If it’s not going be accurate,like very accurate, it will be a waste of time and money. Even the facial recognition stuff that’s on computers and phones now for photographs is not accurate. I keep getting labeled incorrectly.
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Here is a feature that is testing out the waters of facial recognition.
https://www.familysearch.org/discovery/compareme
I know some researchers have used facial recognition to find potential matches for unidentified people in photos. But this always has to be backed up by further research.
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I let Family search know I am interested.
@lyleblunttoronto1 I have used that.. I am a 69% match with my paternal grandmother
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I just tried it with a photograph of a maternal cousin's offspring. It said he's a 50% match to the wedding portrait painting of my paternal great-grandmother, to whom he is not at all related.
As they say: entertainment value only.
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I would like to get involved with the Photo Recognition Project. I have been studying Ancestry DNA Photo Recognition. I was thrilled to see that FamilySearch is involved. How do I get more information.
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I love the idea but when I click on the I'm interested button with the checkmark nothing happens.
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We were told about Facial Recognition and how that may help us find relatives , by which I assume scanning pictures in Family Search. We were asked to give our opinion. The only opinion/option we were given was to say would we use it. Only by not saying we would use it could we say: we would not use it, and it is not a good idea. Not a good way to get feedback.
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Good morning,
I'm seeing things about new technology to tell whether people in a picture are cousins, siblings, or unrelated. First of all, this is the kind of thing I've been waiting for for years. Back during COVID I worked through our family's family history boxes, and there were thousands of pictures that weren't labeled. We had huge spreads out of pictures, trying to compare faces to see if we could find other pictures of the people whose faces we knew. We've been scanning, too. We found a lot in this way, but there are still thousands of images and people we haven't identified. And, with so many, it almost seems impractical to try.
The software to compare my face to that of my ancestors already exists. It would be so helpful to have software, where I take a picture and have it look at all my relatives ("out to second, or third, or forth cousins - or four generations back, or five generations"); or those on a specific line ("look at the ancestors and relatives on my great-grandma's side"); or change the comparison "tree" (where the relative-looking starts) to that of a relatives (so it looks at the relatives of my second cousin instead of my own). For example, if I already had pictures in FamilySearch of my Sprague line, then I could run an unknown picture I knew was from that line through the software, and it could tell me which individual on that line specifically it was likely to be.
It would also be incredibly helpful to have be able to look at two pictures and tell the likelihood of those images being the same person.
An extension of this would be software, a database, to upload thousands of pictures and have the software go through them for you, to tell you which faces were likely the same person or at least related. Then you could "approve" the comparison and attach. That would be a glorious day.
It could even compare mine to the database at large because the image I haven't identified could be identified by a distant relative who has also uploaded similar images. It would also be helpful because I have tons of yearbooks and newspapers with thousands of people I'm not related to. Being able to make those images available for their descendants would be awesome. These could even pop up on "hints" like records currently do. (If they already had an image of the individual, and the software determined it was likely that an image I uploaded to the database was that same individual.) That would be so cool.
I know that's probably pretty far out, but it would be a transition comparable to that of my grandparents - who had to fly to Wisconsin to look through microfilm to find family records, where I now just get on my laptop and can find those same records - that are searchable - in ten minutes. I think it would be like that. And it would be a glorious day.
Thank you,
M. C.
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Will the new facial recognition software be able to compare a known person to an unknown one?
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I think facial recognition could be a huge advancement in discovering ones ancestors or children or siblings or relatives etc. Great Addition to Family Search and when will this be available on familysearch? Thank You. Hughie..
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