Our Civil War Photo Sleuth project got a burst of publicity in recent weeks, leading to hundreds of new site registrations and contributions. Here is a round-up of some highlights:
- Slate Magazine: Who’s Behind That Beard?
- Smithsonian Magazine: Facial Recognition Software Is Helping Identify Unknown Figures in Civil War Photographs
- Family Tree Magazine: Applying Facial Recognition to Civil War Photos
- Fast Company: Online sleuths are using face recognition to identify Civil War soldiers in old photographs
- Vintage News: Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App
- Daily Mail: The facial recognition software that could identify thousands of soldiers in American Civil War photographs
- Virginia Tech News: Computer science professor creates facial recognition software to identify Civil War portraits (shown above)
- Civil War Times Magazine: New Photo Research Tool (shown below)
![New Photo Research Tool in Civil War Times magazine](https://crowd.cs.vt.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CivilWarTimesDec2018-e1547660350395-1024x737.jpg)
Thanks to these media outlets for the great publicity!
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