On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:12 +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > 2009/9/10 Ali Servet Donmez <asd pittle org>: > > Hi there, > > > > this is Ali Servet Donmez from Italy. > > > > I simply need to know if there's enough interests having face > > detection/recognition in F-Spot implemented? > > > > I need to know this, because I just proposed a thesis project for my > > Computer Science graduation and before giving my final decision to the > > professor I need to be sure that someone really really wants this. > > Have you seen what Apple iPhoto does? Basically the best scenario > would be to detect faces and try to cluster people tagging the photos > along the way, one would need a way to teach the algorithm things like > - 'here is a face', 'this face is person X', 'this face is a new > person Y' and 'this is not a face'. The program should also be able to > go back into your old photo library and tell you 'I think I've seen > this person before - please select on which image I have correctly > found him'. Note that there might be multiple faces per photo and > there should be a good way to tell which face is which person (as in: > tags at the bottom of the photo do not tell us in which order people > are on the photo). There could be a way to show which faces I have > tagged manually and which the computer tagged and what his confidence > factor was for each face (color of the face-detected rectangle's > border could be used for such indication). > > This would be a very, very great and important feature if done right > and working with even moderate success rate. Hopefully, that's what I (want to)/will do. Thanks for sharing Aigars! -- Ali Servet Donmez <asd pittle org>
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