[Digikam-devel] face recognition in digikam & sponsoring of face recognition

[Gilles Caulier]

File relevant in bugzilla is this one :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288

About mentoring, yes, no problem to guide people of course. this is
the goal of open source project...

Gilles Caulier

2009/12/18 kunal ghosh <kunal.t2 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/project/ImageAnnotation.odt?view=log
>
>
>  Quote from above doc
> "When designing a system for describing regions of an image, care
> should be taken to make this system extensible to other media types,
> like videos or audio files, which are already produced by today's
> digital cameras. At the same time, the system should be flexible to
> allow recognition of things other than faces to be added later, for
> example barcodes which can be used when a catalogue of items along
> with their identification numbers are photographed or scanned.
> The capability for the description of regions should match those for
> entire images, providing a caption, a description (in multiple
> languages) and tags."
>
> Isn't it too much to ask for in one shot ?
>
>> I do not have any experience with face recognition algorithms, but since
>> you (Kunal) are working with them, it might be a good idea to test
>> whether you can find an algorithm that works well with a set of real
>> world photos and compare that with other projects out there (Picasa, for
>
> would the real world photos be any different ? just an additional, though
> not very easy, step
> of face detection would be added.
>
>>
>> Another option would be to only build a face detection system, to make
>> it easier for the user to find images with people, and then tag them.
>> But that would probably not be as cool as automatic tagging ;-)
>
> True , that would indeed be quite cool .
>
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