Category: Image Processing and Analysis

Image Processing at Ancestry.com – Part 1: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Posted by on April 10, 2013 in Image Processing and Analysis

Images of original historical records play a key role in the way Ancestry.com presents family history information to the user. An image of a historical record is much more than evidentiary support for some family history assertion. An image can become the anchor for an engaging and compelling historical narrative. A properly captured and Read More

User Experience Driven Data and Media Correction

Posted by Ancestry Team on March 28, 2013 in Behavioral Driven Development, Image Processing and Analysis

Imagine a world that corrects itself when something goes wrong. A customer clicks a link to an image and gets a message that the image could not be displayed. An hour later that same customer or another customer clicks that same link and the image can now be displayed. This is what we call user Read More

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