The victims of the Holocaust, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, will now have a face
A engineer under a Google, Daniel Pattfrom New Yorkhas designed And developed a softwaremade available for freethat exploits Artificial Intelligence technologies to scan hundreds of thousands of photos to help put a face to Holocaust victims and survivors.
The name of the platform is From Number to Names Number to Names (N2N) and the engineer undertook to make it happen in your free time at your own expenseof course, supported by a team of engineers, researchers and data scientists.
According to the experts of the United States Holocaust Museumthere is no list that identify with certainty the victims And Holocaust survivors. The search to give an identity to the stories of these people is a long and laborious process that starts with information reduced to a flicker. The inspiration of Daniel Patt for the creation of this software came in 2016 during the visit to the Museum POLIN of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Obsessed with the possibility of not being able to give an identity to the faces of his family, Patt developed N2N to help her family and others find photos of loved ones.
The software, still under development, to date returns the 10 best matches. “We simply show the results, with similarity scores, and let people decide if the results contain positive identification“Patt explained in an interview.” We would like that N2N became a vehicle to inform about the Holocaustgiving students the opportunity to contribute directly to the historical documentation, “added Patt.
“The students can use the software to help identify faces and artifacts in photo archives and videos and potentially discover new connections between living Holocaust descendants and their ancestors. ” Daniel Patt was only 9 years old when the war started and he fled his hometown of Zamosc eastward with his father and brothers. His mother was killed during the Nazi invasion as Patt’s great-uncle. The rest of the family survived and emigrated to New York after the war. At the moment the software has analyzed nearly half a million photos, containing around 2 million faces.
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