iPhoto vs. digiKam: face detection and recogntion

[David Talmage-2]

Bug 146288 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288) is as a request
for face detection and recognition in digiKam.  Today, as Gizmodo
liveblogged the keynote of Apple's Macworld,  Phil Schiller announced
those features for the new iPhoto.  It works as described in Bug 146288:
you ask iPhoto to find faces in a photo, then you tell iPhoto who each
face belongs to, then iPhoto can recognize those faces in other photos.

Before I read the live blog, I hadn't thought of any peace time uses for
facial recognition.  I just thought it was something that evil
governments and their police forces use as part of a national
demoralization project.  (Yes, I live in the USA.  Don't get me started
on the DHS and the TSA, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Gitmo.)

Now, I think I'd like to have that in digiKam.  If it's reliable, it
would make tagging my photos a lot easier.  I guess it's on the schedule
for KDE4.
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

David,

To perform face recognition, an external library need to be used. There a few one, but i think the more mature project is LibOpenCv.

It's already used in Batch Remove Read Eyes kipi-plugins coded by Andi:

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/384

So, he is the best developer to explain what we can do with LibOpenCv...

Best

Gilles Caulier

2009/1/6 David Talmage <[hidden email]>

Bug 146288 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288) is as a request
for face detection and recognition in digiKam.  Today, as Gizmodo
liveblogged the keynote of Apple's Macworld,  Phil Schiller announced
those features for the new iPhoto.  It works as described in Bug 146288:
you ask iPhoto to find faces in a photo, then you tell iPhoto who each
face belongs to, then iPhoto can recognize those faces in other photos.

Before I read the live blog, I hadn't thought of any peace time uses for
facial recognition.  I just thought it was something that evil
governments and their police forces use as part of a national
demoralization project.  (Yes, I live in the USA.  Don't get me started
on the DHS and the TSA, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Gitmo.)

Now, I think I'd like to have that in digiKam.  If it's reliable, it
would make tagging my photos a lot easier.  I guess it's on the schedule
for KDE4.
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Dnia Tuesday 06 January 2009, David Talmage napisał:
> Bug 146288 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288) is as a request
> for face detection and recognition in digiKam.  Today, as Gizmodo

This feature is also available in pisasaweb.google.com for those who
want to test it and don't have access to newest iPhoto.

m.

ps. I didn't test - Google doesn't play with Konqueror, I don't play
    with Google ;)

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