[Digikam-devel] People tagging design

[Aditya Bhatt]

And Michael's ideas from the previous sprint look good, this in particular
: http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=43086
<http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=43086>
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Aditya Bhatt <adityabhatt1991 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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Aditya Bhatt
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Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/aditya_bhatt
Face Recognition Library : http://libface.sourceforge.net
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