[Digikam-devel] People tagging design

[Aditya Bhatt]

And some issues have been discussed in this thread:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146337 (see the 2010 year's posts)

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Aditya Bhatt <adityabhatt1991 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Since I'm ready to start digiKam+libface integration, I need to discuss how
> the face detection+recognition GUI is to be done in digiKam.
>
> *Detection*:
> I'm tweaking the peopletag project at the moment. It draws it's own
> backgound picture and it is possible to draw and move around rectangles on
> it. I'm completely trashing the nepomuk code from this widget.
> iPhoto does it like this :
> http://www.popgadget.net/images/iphoto_1_blurred.jpg . Unrecognized faces
> are tagged with "unknown".
>
> Question: digiKam draws it's own preview. Would it be possible to have a
> widget in digiKam that draws the little tag boxes over this preview widget?
> I don't find the idea of opening a separate window for region tagging very
> appealing.
>
> *Recognition:*
> Here's how iPhoto does it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3427
> I don't think this should be much of an issue, both iPhoto and Picasa do it
> (almost) this way.
> In Picasa, you can identify unnamed people this way :
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3442/3947433848_e32996d70b.jpg
> And you can vote yes/no this way :
> http://andywolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/PicasaFaceFinder.png
> (All revealed by google search)
> Note the people list in the left pane.
>
> I think recognition should be implemented as shown above. I find it
> perfect. And I think we should also have a people list on the left, like in
> picasa.
>
> As for detection, I'm waiting for advice. By the way, the face detection in
> F-Spot (never implemented, incomplete GSoC project) seems to have coded the
> region tagging directly into the main photo viewer widget (as gleaned from
> the student's blog). Should I do that?
>
>
> Cheers
> --
> Aditya Bhatt
> Blog : http://adityabhatt.wordpress.com
> Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/aditya_bhatt
> Face Recognition Library : http://libface.sourceforge.net
>



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Aditya Bhatt
Blog : http://adityabhatt.wordpress.com
Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/aditya_bhatt
Face Recognition Library : http://libface.sourceforge.net
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