Re: f-spot-list Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4

[Ali Servet Donmez <asd pittle org>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:29 PM,  <f-spot-list-request gnome org> wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:12:01 -0400
> From: Etienne lepercq <e guepe gmail com>
> To: f-spot-list gnome org
> Subject: libface : a face detection library
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> A face detection library with face recognition is a GSOC project, that is
> used in the development branch of Digikam.
>
> libface aims to be used by other projects, and I think it would be great to
> use this one in f-spot.
>
> The developer blog's entry for face recognition :
> http://adityabhatt.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/yet-another-gsoc-update-libface-gets-face-recognition/
>
> libface home project page : http://libface.sourceforge.net/file/Home.html
>
> Maybe someone would step up with this? I honestly can't do much more than
> giving these pointers.
>
> ?tienne Lepercq
> --
> Sincerily

Hi,

we kinda talked about face detection&recognition with Ruben Vermeersch
in past, we agreed that this is definitely something that F-Spot is
missing and I personally think that there are not much excuses for not
doing it right.

I can give a little bit of my time to put the face detection code
there either using libface, EmguCV or OpenCV via P/Invokes, but can't
really afford to do all that UI stuff (namely region tagging in
general, face tagging in specific; search, highlights, etc.).

Also, F-Spot had a very bad development tree to my taste when we
talked about this, I hope with the last release MonoDevelop can be
used to write code, compile and debug, then we could talk.

Oh, I don't mean to pretend to be neither "the one" nor "the only one"
to do face detection/recognition, after all I'm not an expert on the
subject, but just did some detection in the past; so anyone is free to
contribute and hack on this stuff.

Let me know.

Best regards,
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Ali Servet Donmez <asd pittle org>
http://www.pittle.org/