[Digikam-devel] GSoC Introduction: Aniket Handa

[Aniket Handa]

Thanks a lot Ananta. Couldn't have got better links. I am used to
OpenCV and moreover currently bytefish seems to be working on LDA, so
gotta test that around. But I'm pretty much new to KDE, I suppose that
should be a problem.

Cheers!
Aniket

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Ananta Palani <anantapalani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aniket,
>
> I'm not in charge of this particular area of digiKam, but here are some
> links you can start looking into to get familiar with using OpenCV and
> performing facial recognition, as well as descriptions and papers for
> various algorithms. The current algorithm (eigenfaces) used in digiKam would
> not be very good with real-world images (even if it worked properly). One of
> the best (if not the best) algorithm available would be the Fisherfaces or
> Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) method. You can read a nice summary and
> analysis here:
>
>    http://www.bytefish.de/blog/fisherfaces
>
> Here are some good summaries of various algorithms that are available for
> further comparison:
>
>    http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceRecognition
>    http://www.face-rec.org/algorithms/
>
> I believe you have to apply and be accepted to the GSoC program before you
> can actually be work on GSoC projects, but someone else will probably
> contact you about that (or info might be on the GSoC website?).
>
> Best,
> -Ananta
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Aniket Handa <atneik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> My name is Aniket Handa, currently enrolled in Jaypee Institute of
>> Information Technology, Noida, INDIA pursing B.Tech-M.Tech Dual
>> program in Computer Science & Engineering. My interests range from
>> Computer Vision, Computer Graphics to developing Android Apps. I am a
>> firm believer of FOSS.
>>
>> I am particularly interested in "Facial Recognition" partially due to
>> its high demand (Bug 271679: 492 votes) and partially due to my
>> interests in vision. I saw that this Idea was also in GSoC 2010, so
>> that puts up questions like: was it taken by some student? If so, were
>> there some problems?
>>
>> I am currently looking more about the project and will get back to you
>> soon. Looking forward for being a valuable part of the community.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aniket
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