GSoC ideas

[Lydia Pintscher]

Heya folks :)

http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.


Cheers
Lydia

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Heya folks :)
>
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
> your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
> for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
> for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
> team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
> let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.

Collecting ideas:

- some hot ideas for new image plugins?
        I'm sure the eternal face recognition is mentioned, but I believe it's
        not well suited for SOC, it's too difficult
- what about this kipi plugin import/export common infrastructure with
Akonadi? Anyone doing real work on this?
- Michael working on the worldmap widget, is there some clearly defined part
that could be given to a student, like an innovative widget or implementing
some algorithms?
- in preparation for image versioning we can define some chunks of work:
        - make image plugins serialize their settings and apply in batch mode,
          could be coupled with scripting by Kross or Javascript to give the
        project a purpose and idea
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[Yegor Yefremov-3]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Marcel Wiesweg <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>> Heya folks :)
>>
>> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
>> your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
>> for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
>> for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
>> team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
>> let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.
>
> Collecting ideas:
>
> - some hot ideas for new image plugins?
>        I'm sure the eternal face recognition is mentioned, but I believe it's
>        not well suited for SOC, it's too difficult
> - what about this kipi plugin import/export common infrastructure with
> Akonadi? Anyone doing real work on this?
> - Michael working on the worldmap widget, is there some clearly defined part
> that could be given to a student, like an innovative widget or implementing
> some algorithms?
> - in preparation for image versioning we can define some chunks of work:
>        - make image plugins serialize their settings and apply in batch mode,
>          could be coupled with scripting by Kross or Javascript to give the
>        project a purpose and idea

What about enabling CD Archive plugin as k3b going towards 2.0?
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[Michael G. Hansen]

On 02/21/2010 05:15 PM, Marcel Wiesweg wrote:

>> Heya folks :)
>>
>> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
>> your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
>> for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
>> for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
>> team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
>> let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.
> Collecting ideas:
> - some hot ideas for new image plugins?
> I'm sure the eternal face recognition is mentioned, but I believe it's
> not well suited for SOC, it's too difficult

There seem to be some people working on the face recognition part -
maybe ask them whether they want to do it as GSOC. Also, one could still
split the annotation part from the recognition part and do only the
annotation part for GSOC.

> - Michael working on the worldmap widget, is there some clearly defined part
> that could be given to a student, like an innovative widget or implementing
> some algorithms?

- There have been several requests for reverse-geocoding and storing
that information as descriptions or tags. So a GUI could be designed and
backends be written for geonames.org, Google Maps.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150981

- The current map search only works on the selected regions and is item
based. It would be nice if all images in the database were displayed on
the map before the user makes a selection. The WorldMapWidget2 allows a
model to be used to request images for the visible part of the map only.
What needs to be done is a model that requests the required images from
the database with some caching.

Michael

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[Julien Narboux]

Hi,

Here are a few ideas about GSoC for Digikam / kipiplugins:

1- Implement a kipi plugin to build a photo book.

The user interface would contain:
- a widget to display the list of thumbnails of pictures which can be
used in the book
  - the list could be filled with the current digikam selection when the
plugin is started,
  - searching for pictures by aspect ratio would be useful,
  - displaying a small star one figure which have already been placed in
the book would be useful
- a widget to display a preview of the book
- some buttons to turn pages, and add/delete/move pages
- a widget to display a list of possible layouts sorted by number of
pictures, this widget would be a rendering of some svg  fdocuments
containing several pictures poetentialy with transparency and rotation/
translation:
 - 1 picture per page
 - 2 pictures per page
 - 3 pictures per page
 - ...
- a widget which allow changing translation, rotation and zoom of the
the pictures of the svg files

The templates would be written as svg files so that anyone can write
templates using inkscape or any other editor.
The gui would only have to allow drag and drop of picture from the
thumbnail view into pictures elements of the svg files. It seems to me
that Qt4 support of svg allows to find out when someone click one some
elements of an svg file.

At the end the book could be exported to pdf ...

2- Implement non destructive editing in Digikam

 - Based on Gilles Caulier work on imageplugins, implement serialiazers
for each image plugin settings objects to XML.
 - To ease testing write a command line tool which allows to apply all
digikam plugins on pictures taking into input some XML files of the
settings (some kind of Digikam's version of ImageMagick).
 - Change Digikam's editor into something which only dits the XML files.
 - Write support to deal with both the original picture and the edited
picture.
 - Change Digikam's Batch Queue Manager into a gui to copy  non
destructive editing settings from one picture to another and apply the
changes.

Julien

Lydia Pintscher a écrit :

> Heya folks :)
>
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
> your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
> for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
> for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
> team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
> let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
>  

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[Lydia Pintscher]

Can you please add them to the wiki page if those ideas are ok with
the digikam team?
Thanks :)

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[Johannes Wienke-3]

Am 21.02.2010 15:35 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
> your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
> for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
> for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
> team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
> let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.

Yet another idea: we need an imag eeditor plugin to automatically remove
dust and scratches from scanned iamges.

Johannes



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[Michael G. Hansen]

On 02/22/2010 10:11 PM, Julien Narboux wrote:
> 1- Implement a kipi plugin to build a photo book.

I like the idea of a photo book editor, but at least here in Germany,
most of the photo book printing offers require special software and do
not work with PDFs. If we decide to go down that route, maybe a list of
providers which are willing to print photo books produced by digikam
could be added.

On the other hand, once we get into the book making business, users may
quickly start requesting more DTP-like features like text boxes, font
effects, shaped images, handling of paper sizes etc. How about making a
plugin for KWord or Scribus for selecting images from digikam instead?

Michael

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[Laurent Espitallier]

Le 22/02/2010 22:21, Johannes Wienke a écrit :
> e need an imag eeditor plugin to automatically remove dust and
> scratches from scanned iamges.
>
> Johannes

Excellent idea, even DSLRs needs a dust removal tool sometimes...


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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Lydia,

I think the best candidate is Face detection feature. It's an high
user rated feature in bugzilla.

 Alex works on a shared library dedicated to face detection :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288#c77

So, he can be interrested to be sponsored by GSoc

Gilles Caulier

2010/2/21 Lydia Pintscher <[hidden email]>:

> Heya folks :)
>
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas has none or only one idea for
> your team so far. This is a bit sad as students are starting to look
> for projects and ideas already. Also we need this page to be filled
> for our org application. So please put your ideas there asap. If your
> team decides to not take part this year for some reason please also
> let me know too. Admins are around in #kde-git for questions.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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[Marcel Wiesweg]

>  Alex works on a shared library dedicated to face detection :
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288#c77
>
> So, he can be interrested to be sponsored by GSoc

I have contacted Alex. He is working full time on a PhD so he cannot apply as
a GSoc student. He is willing to collaborate and help if a GSoc project takes
the project, though.

Someone else ready to be mentor for this project? I have already proposed
myself as mentor for the non-destructive editing project. (Of course we dont
know if at all and if yes which project will be accepted.)
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