{"id":31170,"date":"2025-04-07T01:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31170"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:12:24","slug":"another-great-use-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/another-great-use-for-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"another great use for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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sample photo from My Heritage website<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. I received an email from past president Les Jones this weekend noting that a genealogy web site is using AI<\/a> to estimate the date of a photo based on its contents.<\/p>\n

Since the service (called PhotoDater<\/a>) is \u00a0used within a browser, it likely works with any OS. The site My Heritage<\/a> has a two week ‘free’ membership which must be used to access PhotoDater.<\/p>\n

Once a photo is uploaded following the site’s protocol, an estimated date is usually suggested plus the statistical variance (eg. 1946 +- 5 years). Check out the site and see if it appeals to you (especially image collectors with uncertain dates for photos). The Photo Dater technology according to My Heritage was ‘educated’ with a huge number of accurately dated historical images.<\/p>\n

Skeptical? Check out the various ‘PhotoDater’ Youtube videos to see how My Heritage puts AI to work as a realistic ‘dater’ of old photos. From my own perspective, AI is really helpful doing the repetitive routine analysis and adjustments we make day to day.<\/p>\n

I use Topaz Photo AI on this site at times. Each iteration of the application seems to improve the results. It is often impressive and often a disaster. Still lots of room for improvement. It seems to do a strikingly good job on some things (ie the odd portrait) but has a ways to go (ie, realizing the shape of screw heads on cameras for example). I like its upsizing for the most part, and its de-noise function but often fall back to using ‘Focus Magic’ for out of focus images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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