Tag: photo_sleuth
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Civil War Photo Sleuth in TIME
Our Civil War Photo Sleuth project was featured in a TIME article by Olivia Waxman, “How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers.” The article includes interviews with several prominent CWPS users showing how the software has benefited them by identifying unknown soldiers in Civil War-era photos. Congrats to Vikram Mohanty,…
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Presented at University of Maryland CASCI Seminar
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation at the Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI) at the University of Maryland on November 19, 2019. The title of his presentation was, “Crowd Sleuths: Solving Mysteries with Crowdsourcing, Experts and AI.” The abstract was as follows: Professional investigators in fields such as journalism, law…
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Presented at AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Work
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Work on November 8, 2019. The title of his presentation was, “Solving AI’s last-mile problem with crowds and experts.” Dr. Luther’s position paper accompanying the presentation is available online. The abstract for the paper is as follows: Visual search tasks,…
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Presented on photo sleuthing at The Washington Post
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation to an audience of engineers and journalists at The Washington Post on October 23, 2019. The title of his talk was, “Photo sleuthing: Helping investigators solve photo mysteries using crowdsourcing and AI.” The abstract for the talk was: Journalists, intelligence analysts, and human rights investigators frequently analyze photographs of…
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Presented at Machine Learning + Libraries Summit at Library of Congress
Dr. Luther was invited to present at the Machine Learning + Libraries Summit held on September 20, 2019 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The title of his presentation — which was allocated extra time as a featured project — was, “Civil War Photo Sleuth: Combining Crowdsourcing and Face Recognition to Identify Historical…
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Paper accepted for HCOMP 2019
The Crowd Lab had a paper, titled, “Second Opinion: Supporting last-mile person identification with crowdsourcing and face recognition,” accepted for the upcoming AAAI Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2019) conference at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA, USA, October 28-30, 2019. The conference had a 25% acceptance rate. Ph.D. student and lead author Vikram Mohanty…
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Presented at ACWM grand opening
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation on Civil War Photo Sleuth at the grand opening celebrations of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA, on May 4. He was one of eight Emerging Scholars invited to speak. The museum described the event and program as follows: On Saturday, May 4, 2019, the American Civil…
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More press for Civil War Photo Sleuth
Our Civil War Photo Sleuth project continues to attract press and media attention. Here is a roundup of additional articles since the last post: Smithsonian: The Computer Scientist Who Wants to Put a Name to Every Face in Civil War Photographs Roanoke Times: A Civil War find of a high tech kind Fox News: AI…
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Best Paper Award at IUI 2019
Our paper, “Photo Sleuth: Combining Human Expertise and Face Recognition to Identify Historical Portraits,” received the Best Paper Award at IUI 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. This award recognized the best paper among 282 submissions. Congratulations to lead author Vikram Mohanty (CS Ph.D. student), David Thames (CS undergraduate), and Sneha Mehta (CS Ph.D. student). A…
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Presented at Civil War Photo Talks
Dr. Luther gave an invited presentation, titled “Civil War Photo Sleuthing: Past, Present, and Future” at Civil War Photo Talks in Arlington, VA, co-sponsored by Military Images Magazine and Civil War Faces. Other invited speakers included Ann Shumard, National Portrait Gallery; Micah Messenheimer, Library of Congress; Bryan Cheeseboro, National Archives; and Rick Brown, Military Images.…