Facial Recognition App - Post Your Comparison

[lelliott19]

Has anyone ever used this app?

I thought it might be a joke so to see if it is questionable, legit, or somewhere in between, I tested several pairs of images - some known matched pairs and some intentionally unmatched pairs. Below are just a couple of "test" sets I ran for example. The known matches seem to return 80-100% and the intentionally unmatched ones <18% so maybe there is some merit to it?

EXAMPLE 1 Below: A pair of known images of Brigadier General Sterling Alexander Martin (SAM) Wood taken about 20 years apart.

EXAMPLE 2 Below: Left - A known image of Major Frank Gailor of SAM Wood's Staff (killed at Perryville Oct 8 1862) and Right - tentatively id'd image of Alexander Lockett Hamilton, Chaplain Woods Brigade.

 

[alan polk]

Now that is pretty cool for sure!!! Well done. Thanks for posting!!

 

[AndyHall]

Definitely on to something:

Kidding aside, this could be very useful.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

I was interested to see this, @lelliott19, in light of a couple of portraits in a thread that @JPK Huson 1863 posted yesterday. I was struck by the similarities between a portrait of an older woman and one of a younger woman, and wondered if they might be the same person or possibly mother and daughter:

https://www.civilwartalk.com/thread...ore-voices-from-the-past.128815/#post-1423988

' Free ' Black Woman, And More Voices From The Past

So I uploaded both portraits into the app just now, and here is the result:

 

[AndyHall]

I think the color image below may be @Zuzah 's:

 

[AndyHall]

One more, not CW:

 

[lelliott19]

One more, not CW:

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Who are the pictures of? Sorry. No idea

 

[AndyHall]

Franklin Roosevelt. I wanted to try it with the same person at extreme ends of adulthood.

 

[AndyHall]

Well, that dog won't hunt. Left, 1880s gunslinger King Fisher; right, Confederate General John G. Walker.

 

[lelliott19]

Remember when I was trying to verify the ID's of the men of SAM Wood's Brigade Staff from the picture below?

And I kept saying that the young man standing on the left had to be Martin Vanburen Walt? I was basing that on a known image of him which was a pen and ink drawing from a page in a book?

Below - two known images of Martin Vanburen Walt young and old

 

[lelliott19]

Well, that dog won't hunt. Left, 1880s gunslinger King Fisher; right, Confederate General John G. Walker.

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Too bad.....I was hopeful.

 

[AndyHall]

It's a very useful tool. Not definitive, but nothing is. Still, very useful.

 

[AndyHall]

Too bad.....I was hopeful.

I think it was just annoyed at me hogging the server.

 

[lelliott19]

It's a very useful tool. Not definitive, but nothing is. Still, very useful.

I'll still rely on my women's intuition (and my forensic science degree)

But, I will likely use it to just to see if I might be missing something. Lemme give an example - when I was trying to ID the men in the Wood's Brigade photo, several people suggested that the middle standing man might be Frank Gailor. I didn't "intuit" a similarity and sure enough, that comparison scored a 16% (see Example 2 in OP)

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

What a fun site !

Thanks Laura.

 

[AndyHall]

I have heard anecdotally that women are better at facial recognition than men are. (This was in the context of matching skulls with facial reconstructions of the persons in life.) I attributed that to a learned skill, based on use of makeup and focus on beatifying generally, that women have more practice in examining and comparing facial features than men do.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I think it was just annoyed at me hogging the server.

I wonder how this app would handle images of naval vessels.

 

[lelliott19]

I wonder how this app would handle images of naval vessels.

Try it and let us know!!! Be sure to post the results!

I have heard anecdotally that women are better at facial recognition than men are. (This was in the context of matching skulls with facial reconstructions of the persons in life.) I attributed that to a learned skill, based on use of makeup and focus on beatifying generally, that women have more practice in examining and comparing facial features than men do.

IDK about "beautifying" but in my course work, that seemed to be the case. The women in those classes seemed to have more patience and willingness to continue manipulating the reconstruction to match their intuition (?) of what was "right" for that individual reconstruction. I think women tend to work from individual experience more than men - less concerned with what the "average" should be and more from intuition. (Not sure that makes any sense if you havent worked in reconstructing facial features?)

 

[chubachus]

Someone should try some of the alleged Lincoln postmortems...

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Try it and let us know!!! Be sure to post the results!

Just tried, it didn't work.

I entered a famous photo of the USS Monitor, the response was " no face detected . . try again".