This week in my monthly post on World Wide Genealogy Collaboration I delved into the topic of Facial Recognition programs, "Geneology CSI Style - Facial Recognition" and how
they can be used in identifying those unknown faces in your old family photos.
As a user of these programs I am still wearing my “L” plates and will wait until I have had more time to become more experienced in using the “Facial
Recognition” software before I give my verdict on its usefulness.
As a summary of this week’s research I thought I would share
with you some of the useful blogs and articles that I have discovered this week and would be very interested to hear back from other family
researchers on their experiences with “facial recognition” programs.
Books
Steele, J. 2013, Face to Face: Analysis and Comparison ofFacial Features to Authenticate Identities of People in Photographs, Joelle Steele Enterprises. (this is on my shopping list).
Articles
Rasmus, E, 2012, “Improving Face Recognition with Genealogical and Contextual Data”, Honours Thesis, http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/reports/HonsReps/2012/hons_1207.pdf, viewed 10/07/14.
Rasmus, R. and Green, E., “ Improving Facial Recognition with Genealogical and Contextual Data”, Proceedings for the 27th Conference on Image and Vision Computing, New Zealand, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2425836.2425897, Viewed 3/7/14
Shao, Xia and Fu, “Genealogical Face Recognition based on UB KinFace Database”, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5981801. Viewed 10/7/14
Steele, J.,“Using Facial Features to identify people in
photographs, Who’s who in your family Photos”, http://www.swedishfinn.com/article-405.html
viewed 2/7/14
Blogs
Ancestor Search Blog,”How Google Picasa Face Recognition
Software can help Genealogists”, http://ancestorsearch.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/how-google-picasa-face-recognition.html. Viewed 2/7/14.
Christoph Bartneck, 2008, University of Canterbury, HIT Lab NZ, “Recognising and Identifying People in Family Picture”, http://www.bartneck.de/2008/08/03/recognizing-and-identifying-people-in-family-pictures/. Viewed 2/7/14.
Creative Gene, Using Facial Recognition Software in Photo Identification, http://creativegene.blogspot.com.au/2008/02/using-facial-recognition-software-in.html, viewed 11/07/14.
Geneapprentice, “ Facial Recognition Software- A helpful
Genealogy Too”l, http://geneapprentice.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/facial-recognition-software-helpful.html. Viewed 3/7/14
Social Media and Genealogy, “Picasa Face-recognition scan
conclusions”, http://socialmediagen.com/picasa-face-recognition-scan-finished/
The Ancestry Insider, “Facial Recognition”, http://www.ancestryinsider.org/2012/05/facial-recognition.html. Viewed 3/7/14
Thanks for this post, Diane. I wrote a post a week or two ago about trying to identify a photo of my ancestor at a younger age (which of several) based on a photo of her at an older age. I was hoping Picasa would help. I think if I had more than one photo of her, it might have, but with only one photo at an older age, it hasn't been able to choose which of the women at a younger age might be her. I'll check out some of the posts you recommend and see if any of them might give me more suggestions for help.
ReplyDeleteHi Nancy, I am just starting to explore the possibilities of facial recognition, as you can see from my post on The Worldwide Genealogy Collaboration, http://worldwidegenealogy.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/genealogy-csi-style-facial-recognition.html,
ReplyDeleteTime permitting I would like to do a comparison of a couple of the programs that have facial recognition components. Very interested to hear others feedback.