This is why, if you choose to save the date estimate to the photo metadata, it appears as an estimated date in GEDCOM format, rather than an exact one. While PhotoDater™ may narrow down the year with very high accuracy, it can be off by several years. Nevertheless, it’s important to remember that date estimates are just that: estimates. For example, if the date estimate suggests that Grandma and Grandpa were married in 1931, based on their wedding photo, and you remember Grandma saying she got married when she was 23, or you can gauge her age from her appearance in the photo, you can narrow down her birth year to circa 1908. By figuring out when a mystery photo was taken, it becomes easier to identify who appears in it, and deduce what event it was taken at, such as a wedding or other milestone. MyHeritage PhotoDater™ – TRY IT NOW! Using photo date estimates in family history researchĭate estimates are valuable clues that can further your family history research.
Analysis of the testing set, displayed in the graph below, shows that for approximately 60% of the photos, PhotoDater™ provided date estimations that were within 5 years of the actual dates the photos were taken. If you prefer not to see any date estimates, you can turn off PhotoDater™ from the site settings menu.Įxtensive testing of the algorithm’s accuracy, conducted using definitively dated photos that were not used in the original training set, revealed the estimates to be extremely accurate, not just on a decade level, but often closer to an actual year. Date estimates can be reviewed and saved by you to the photo’s metadata, or dismissed. A photo of just a car or a scan of a historical record won’t receive a date estimate. Estimates are calculated only for photos that do not already have a date in the metadata, that include people, and that are actual photographs, not documents or gravestones. The algorithm provides date estimates for undated photos taken between 18, for which it is reasonably confident it can return results with high accuracy. Photos uploaded by MyHeritage users and stored on the company’s servers were not used to train the AI model. The historical photos used to train the model came from open-source repositories such as the Library of Congress. The date estimation algorithm was trained on tens of thousands of curated, definitively dated historical photos to help the algorithm understand nuances such as clothing, hairstyles, facial hair, furniture, and other objects that are characteristic of a particular decade. PhotoDater™ uses a proprietary machine learning algorithm developed by MyHeritage to provide an estimate of the year when a photo was taken. Our Founder and CEO, Gilad Japhet, came up with the idea for PhotoDater™ and first described it in his presentation at RootsTech in 2020. This can help you unlock further clues about who appears in the photo and the event at which it was taken, to solve mysteries in your genealogy research.
Using powerful technology developed by our AI team, PhotoDater™ gives its best guess when a photo was taken. PhotoDater™ is one-of-a-kind: MyHeritage is the only genealogy service that offers date estimation for historical photos.
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Today we’re excited to announce the release of PhotoDater™, a groundbreaking, free new feature that estimates the year a photo was taken using AI technology. Have you ever found old family photos, but have no clue when they were taken? Perhaps you flipped them over hoping to find more details, only to discover they don’t have any? In the past, details about the photos would have remained a mystery, but here at MyHeritage, we set out to find a solution. MyHeritage PhotoDater™ is HERE! So I’ve know about this new AI feature at MyHeritage since RootsTech earlier this year and FINALLY it is available for all MyHeritage users! MyHeritage PhotoDater™ – Helps You Date Those Old Family Photos
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