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Re:Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Faci... by roadkillon101 on Monday December 03, 2018 @10:40AM (#18589550)
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?
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Re:Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Faci... by gwern on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:02AM (#18589744)
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/...
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Re:Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Faci... by geephroh on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:57AM (#18590273)
For anyone who wants to mess around with Face API, MS has a simple python implementation along with a sample desktop app here:

https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Face-Python

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