Re: Face detection / recognition / tagging

[James Hughes <jnahughes googlemail com>]

Ali Servet Donmez wrote:
> 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.
>
> Also, and most importantly, I need to hear from at least one fairly
> experienced F-Spot developer if she/he could give me the support that I
> will need during this journey. Like coding standards for F-Spot, guiding
> during the development of an extension (or instead bundle this into the
> F-Spot directly instead of writing a separate extension), whom to talk
> to and how to get this thing into the main trunk of F-Spot, which
> programming language should I code, and so on...
>
> Please remember that the decision has to be made by sunday night
> (13.09.2009) so can I can apply early on monday morning. I know this is
> not too much time, but you have to make your decision as quick as
> possible please.
>
> My possible _initial_ (I should stop at a certain point if I want to
> graduate right?) solution to the problem goes like this (please add
> yours in case you have objections or better ideas):
>
> * OpenCV for face detection on static images
> * Face recognition/identificaton somehow [optional] (will discuss with
> the professor if that's possible to accomplish until deadline for thesis
> consignation)
> * Scan faces on/off once for all the image archive you've got
> * Region tagging (with highlighting) on detected faces
>
> Make some noise!
>
> P.S.: if you ever worked on this before (Maxxer, Robert Paskowitz,
> Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka from [1] are few names that I've came to know)
> please don't be silent.
>
> [1]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324391
>
> Regards,
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That sort of feature would put F-Spot head and shoulder above others. 
Well worth the effort I would think.

Not easy to do though!!! I work on mobile phone graphics software and we 
buy in face tracking software because of the complexity. Face 
recognition is even harder!

James