[Digikam-devel] [Bug 146288] Face detection / recognition for digikam

Claudio Noguera claudio.noguera at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 11:32:28 BST 2009


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


Claudio Noguera <claudio.noguera at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #53 from Claudio Noguera <claudio noguera gmail com>  2009-06-29 12:32:20 ---
I definitely think this should be implemented. To me there are three steps for
developing this:

1. Prepare the database so that it can save where the face is in a picture. It
could also be extended to enable region tagging (like facebook or flickr have).
2. Implement face detection.
3. Implement face recognition.

The advantage of this approach is that each of the three steps will be seen as
an improvement by the final user. Another advantage is that the whole face
detection thing will be easier to implement if it can be divided in incremental
steps.

An this is briefly how I think each of the steps could be solved:
1 --> add a "position" field to the imagetags table in the database, it would
be empty if it is a global tag.
2 --> train a boosting model based on several haar features. Once trained,
digikam should just calculate the haar features and apply the model. This is
fast, and notice that no classifier training is done in the computer's machine.
Picasa does this. The facedetect example in the openCV library uses too little
features, that's why it doesn't work properly (there are too many false
positives).
3 --> I think this is a clustering problem, but I have never tried to solve it.
I guess it is an easier problem than face detection.

I have some experience in machine learning and computer vision, unfortunately
no experience in C++ developing. Anyway, I'd like to help in getting this
implemented.

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