MyHeritage claims PhotoDater\u2122 can date photographs with a 60% rate of accuracy <\/p>

On its website<\/a>, MyHeritage says: \u201cPhotoDater\u2122 uses a proprietary machine learning algorithm developed by MyHeritage to provide an estimate of the year when a photo was taken. 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe historical photos used to train the model came from open-source repositories such as the Library of Congress. Photos uploaded by MyHeritage users and stored on the company\u2019s servers were not used to train the AI model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe algorithm provides date estimates for undated photos taken between 1860 and 1990, for which it is reasonably confident it can return results with high accuracy. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

It adds that PhotoDater\u2122 correctly dated photographs within five years of when they were taken 59.2% of the time.<\/p>\n

We decided to test out PhotoDater\u2122\u00a0 on some of our own photographs, and here\u2019s what we found.<\/p>\n

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This photo of a Second World War<\/a> WREN<\/a> was taken between 1941<\/strong> and 1945<\/strong>, but PhotoDater\u2122 dated it to 1953<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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$\"Group$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nIn our August issue\u2019s<\/a> Q&A section our photo dating expert Jayne Shrimpton dated this photograph to 1921<\/strong>, noting that the women\u2019s dresses \u201cdisplay the raised waistlines and billowing low-calf-length skirts that produced the so-called \u2018barrel-line\u2019, the silhouette that prevailed c1918\u20131921\u201d and that the presence of civilian men suggests it was after the end of the First World War<\/a>. But PhotoDater\u2122 dates it to 1915<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
$\"Dapper$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nThis picture of two young men was featured in our April issue<\/a>, where Jayne dated it to 1880-1885<\/strong> based on the men\u2019s outfits. But PhotoDater\u2122 estimates 1918<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Our verdict \u2014 PhotoDater\u2122 is fun to play with, but won\u2019t replace other photo dating techniques just yet. If you want to try out dating photographs yourself, get started with our guide<\/a>.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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