Samuel Holmes Doten of Plymouth, Mass., Was born June 5, 1812, ended so after the civil war in 1865, he would joke that he “served in the infantry in the war at that time.” William Kendall Crossfield, a Peterborough, NH native was having a rest during the Battle of Fredericksburg, when he was shot in the neck while turning. The blanket that had, as raised by some miracle the chin cushioned the ball, but came out of the shock of the blow. Vermonter Almeron C. Inman was recommended for the Medal of Honor from 9 February 1887 “for smart coolness and courage” in two 1864 commitment. After being absent for three months in 1895, the thought that he was found dead killed himself. The three men had different stories of civil war, but also had something in common: like many who fought during the war, were photographed in uniform. Multiple copies of the photos were taken, and some were untethered to identify the information. Their faces were nameless icons when not part of real life. And some of these pictures with David Morin in Exeter, N. H. ended, offering a collection of over 260 images of Civil War soldiers. So far, these three men have remained a mystery to him – but last year, has identified the use Civil War Photo Sleuth, a web site that the technology of facial recognition applications, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the men in these pictures. a way for users to get a second opinion on possible Games Photo: And in 2020, the site is planning to add a new function, after a successful test. “Today the story is much better documented and chances of living things, are much bigger,” says Morin. During the Civil War 158 years ago began, the market for the War Photography Collections civilians is relatively new, according to Ron Coddington, one of the employees of the site and the publisher and editors of the magazine Military Pictures. There are pictures of former American military clashes, but civil war is considered the war before photographed in a systematic way, the start of a new era of photojournalism in America. But by the time the centenary of the beginning of the civil war in 1961, came a new wave of interest in the conflict between history buffs, this period albums forever bring more were detained by collectors rather than individual families . In this transition had much information has been lost over the images. Although books on Civil War photographs come with basic biographical data, in the ’80s began, many collectors had no easy way, the names of people in the learning images they had. Get your fix history in one place: you sign up for the weekly newsletter TIME History The founder of the Civil War Photo Sleuth, Kurt Luther, a professor of history and computer science at Virginia Tech in 2013 in the civil war became interested in photography after he tripped over a photo album a picture of his great-great-great-uncle of the 134th Pennsylvania has served in the company and, in an exhibition at the Pennsylvania role in the civil war to Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. When he began to learn more about these images, has started a Wikipedia for photographs of the Civil War imagine – a resource could add someone to figure out who were in the pictures, the men would have helped. “Collections often do not know what they have,” he says. “They are photographs of civil war and do not even know how you will get them.” The result was a civil war Photo Sleuth. When charging users a photo to the site, you can check an e-mail about the color of the uniform coat, or at least to separate if it is “dark” or “light”, the Union and Confederate. The user can specify whether the image is a “character zurücken,” often had the name and position of the photographer, and if there is a tax stamp – like taxed photos Government 1864-1866 to pay an important clue for war. In addition, users will be asked if it is on a hat or distinctive collar, as if these stripes or chevron note on the uniform and how that can describe man’s rank. Similar to Google Viral App that works of art found, the user selfies resembled that uses facial recognition technology to the civil war Photo Sleuth a set of 27 facial features, such as the corners of the mouth or the nose tip, analyze a particular photo. Faces have different proportions, so that the software different distances between the features of the face Portrait loaded calculated – as the distance between the left pupil and right pupil – and then searches for photos with similar distances between facial features. (Sometimes discoloration, or holes in these old images may mask these facial features and prevent identifications.) The site already so popular images contracts, the new the match, with the hope that one of the games to help identify the man in photo. The other photos are uploaded, the more likely that a match is found, and the Civil War Photo Sleuth team adds Library of Congress photos and other collections, to improve the chances of games. Since its launch in August 2018, nearly 30,000 photos on the site added nearly 14,000 registered users, including employees at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. It did little more than 3,300 identifications, including photos in the collections of the New York Public Library, Massachusetts Historical Society and the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. The site also has $25,000 challenge cloud search for Microsoft AI and the National Science Foundation. However, despite the advanced technology, human research remains critical results confirmed app. For example, if Morin a photo of an unidentified Lieutenant Union with a Manchester, NH, is back loaded mark on photos, was surprised to see the site recommended above result was William H. Baldwin, of York into a new engineer regiment served in place of a regiment of New Hampshire. Further investigation showed that he was from New Hampshire, but served in New York. The system is not perfect: identifications proposals from the site could simply be the best possibility of another uploader, and it is unclear if all users to search for follow-up to confirm identifications. But based on a study of activity a month, led by Luther and his team, the accuracy rate of between 75% and 80% is estimated. And collectors have a reason for wanting to expand the database to better sell beyond mere curiosity, identified photos. “The image value increases by 50%,” says Tom Liljenquist, collects for his family collection of over 2,500 portraits. Luther reasons are altruistic. The people behind the site hope to identify photographs of the civil war, they say, there emerge new ways of story again – including Coddington says the way in which this technology can be applied to stories and photos of women and colored people as for the history of war the public is often said soldiers from the point of view of white Union. “We went to war, and it was devastating, and I can not help but think that if we were able of these stories will be exposed to the toll, the price we paid,” said Coddington, “you may think so differently about how to resolve our differences. “ copyright image courtesy of David Morin
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