AI reunites Holocaust survivor with childhood photos
Google engineer develops technology to help identify Holocaust victims in archive photos.
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Google engineer develops technology to help identify Holocaust victims in archive photos.
We don't have the names for everybody. that is part of the problem, and i can't stress enough how important these photos are of individuals. we all know the figure, 6 million, 6 millionjews were killed, but it is really one person 6 million times. every person has a name, every person has a face. but as members of that community have died, so too has the ability to directly identify others in archival photos. software engineer daniel patt has been working to help solve this problem, using artificial intelligence. he calls the project from numbers to names. the way it works is, let's say, for e...
Butjust like many other museums devoted tojewish heritage, a lot of the people in the photos here are unnamed. here, three men are being deported to a concentration camp — perhaps they don't know where they are going. we don't know, the museum says they don't know who they are or what happened to them. it's a common story. we don't have the names for everybody. that is part of the problem, and i can't stress enough how important these photos are of individuals. we all know the figure, 6 million, 6 millionjews were killed, but it is really one person 6 million times. every person has a name, ...
Who they are or what happened to them. it's a common story. we don't have the names for everybody. that is part of the problem, and i can't stress enough how important these photos are of individuals. we all know the figure, 6 million, 6 millionjews were killed, but it is really one person 6 million times. every person has a name, every person has a face. but as members of that community have died, so too has the ability to directly identify others in archival photos. software engineer daniel patt has been working to help solve this problem, using artificial intelligence. he calls the project ...
Devoted tojewish heritage, a lot of the people in the photos here are unnamed. here, three men are being deported to a concentration camp — perhaps they don't know where they are going. we don't know, the museum says they don't know who they are or what happened to them. it's a common story. we don't have the names for everybody. that is part of the problem, and i can't stress enough how important these photos are of individuals. we all know the figure, six million, six millionjews were killed, but it is really one person six million times. every person has a name, every person has a face. b...