[KPhotoAlbum] Help with mass tagging?

[Johannes Zarl]

Hello Joe,

On Wednesday 04 September 2013 18:10:04 Joe wrote:
> I have around 30k photos (taken by my partner) in KPhotoAlbum. About 7k
> of them are tagged. I tag pretty quickly - 100 - 200 per hour, but
> that's still forever for that many photos with more coming (and she
> doesn't use KPA yet.)
> 
> Is there anything that will help me at least partially tag the photos in
> an automated fashion?

I'm afraid that KPA can't really automate the tagging process. The closest 
thing to this would be the Geotagging KIPI plugin, which can automatically add 
place tags depending on the GPS info in the exif data.

> I just saw a post on imgseek which looks useful - if - it could be used
> with or for KPA.

I'm skeptical that imgseek would give you really usable results. I'm yet to 
see a similarity-based image-search product that gets you accurate results for 
images that are not just a (cropped/rotated) copy of the reference images. 

> Has anyone done anything like this? Or does anyone like the idea enough
> to attempt it? I don't have the coding skills for anything of this level.

Adding some kinds of automated tagging (for faces) has been a feature request 
for a long time [1]. So far, nobody has tried to implement this.

> In any case, the program looks like it might be interesting to people on
> this list.

Cheers,
  Johannes


[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170801