Google employee Daniel Patt created an artificial intelligence platform to help descendants of Holocaust victims identify images of their loved ones. Writes about it The Times of Israel.
Platform From Numbers to Names (N2N) scans the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) collection of 34,000 images, as well as photographs of individual survivors and their descendants.
To use the tool, you need to upload a portrait of the person you are looking for around that time. As a result, the service will return 10 potential matches found in the database.
According to Patt, today there is no single list of victims of the Holocaust. He believes these efforts require urgency as there are fewer and fewer survivors.
“We hope that N2N will help make these connections while the survivors are still with us,” the engineer said.
The creation of Patt’s instrument was inspired by a visit to Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016. At first, he worked on the project alone in his spare time. He was later joined by other engineers, researchers, and data scientists.
In the future, the non-profit organization hopes to partner with museums, schools, research institutes, and other organizations that share a common goal of Holocaust education.
“Looking ahead, we would like N2N to become an educational resource about the Holocaust, giving students the opportunity to directly contribute to the historical record,” Patt said.
Recall that in March 2021, the genealogical company MyHeritage introduced the Deep Nostalgia service to create the effect of movement of static portrait shots.
In April, engineers taught “live” photos how to dance and blow a kiss.
In March 2022, MyHeritage partnered with startup D-ID to launch LiveStory, a tool that makes photos talk.
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Google employee Daniel Patt created an artificial intelligence platform to help descendants of Holocaust victims identify images of their loved ones. Writes about it The Times of Israel.
Platform From Numbers to Names (N2N) scans the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) collection of 34,000 images, as well as photographs of individual survivors and their descendants.
To use the tool, you need to upload a portrait of the person you are looking for around that time. As a result, the service will return 10 potential matches found in the database.
According to Patt, today there is no single list of victims of the Holocaust. He believes these efforts require urgency as there are fewer and fewer survivors.
“We hope that N2N will help make these connections while the survivors are still with us,” the engineer said.
The creation of Patt’s instrument was inspired by a visit to Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016. At first, he worked on the project alone in his spare time. He was later joined by other engineers, researchers, and data scientists.
In the future, the non-profit organization hopes to partner with museums, schools, research institutes, and other organizations that share a common goal of Holocaust education.
“Looking ahead, we would like N2N to become an educational resource about the Holocaust, giving students the opportunity to directly contribute to the historical record,” Patt said.
Recall that in March 2021, the genealogical company MyHeritage introduced the Deep Nostalgia service to create the effect of movement of static portrait shots.
In April, engineers taught “live” photos how to dance and blow a kiss.
In March 2022, MyHeritage partnered with startup D-ID to launch LiveStory, a tool that makes photos talk.
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