Face recognition AI / DL and adding features

[cerp at eeos.biz]

Dear Gilles,

Thanks for the link. I looked at the bugzilla thread, and it is very useful.

In my case, I think we may need to start developing a DL classifier  
earlier, I cannot wait for Digikam to have stabilised the face search,  
so I may have to go a different way if I am not allowed to create a  
Digikam plugin for plants classification. We have several 10s of  
thousands of pictures, with many TB of pictures, and manual screening  
is now impossible. I am happy to share my results of course.

Thanks for the link to Photils, which seems to be useful for us. I am  
not completely clear: is photils the engine that is currently used in  
Digikam for face recognition with the new AI / DL approach, or is this  
in the future?

Best Regards

Quoting Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> The non face detection / recognition is a topic already discussed in
> this room and with the developers in the past.
>
> Typically, before to work of monuments, plants, animals, forms, etc,
> we need to finalize the face management. It's under progress while
> this summer as we have 2 students working on this topic.
>
> I resumed the direction to plan for future development in this  
> bugzilla entry :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416988
>
> Porting Photils to digiKam plugin interface as a new generic plugin is
> the first step. This will permit the evaluation of the performance of
> the algorithm.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le lun. 17 août 2020 à 11:53, <cerp at eeos.biz> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> I have been testing 7.0.0 and I love the AI features that recognizes
>> the faces.
>>
>> I would like to extend it to recognize other types of features,
>> because we use digikam to manage an archive of botanical pictures, and
>> it would be very useful for us. The first test would be to identify
>> plants pictures within the database  (not the individual species, just
>> whether the picture contains a plant).
>>
>> I looked at the existing documentation, but it not really sufficiently
>> in depth, it only gives a generic overview.
>>
>> Is there documentation that explains what approach was used to
>> developing the new component for face recognition?
>>
>> Of course, I would be happy to share with the community the outputs of
>> any development.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Corrado Topi
>>
>>