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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by iforgotpassword » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

ape4 wrote: post #63

iforgotpassword wrote: post #23

Incidentally I've been trying out Digikam for the last couple days, mostly because of face recognition. The whole app is pretty slow on lower end hardware, they even recommend having an SSD which my travel laptop which I tested it on doesn't have. That's when I thought I should look for a web based solution because that would also solve acessing and managing the lib from multiple devices, and now there's this post he…

I am also trying digiKam this week. Sadly the face recognition is unusable. For example I tagged one photo with Name1 and many other photos with other names. But it always suggests Name1.

Yes, I found tagging a person less than about ten times tends to mess up the recognition. The sweet spot is about 20-50, then as described above as soon as you have a couple hundred for one person it seems to overfit. I could identify half the detected faces pretty easily by re-running detection two or three times but eventually I ended up with a remaining set of faces that always got detected as the wrong person, if at all, and it's not that they are all blurry or otherwise low quality.

Also I wonder how bad it is to accidentally assign the wrong tag to a person. I noticed that it happened three or four times, so I ended up having maybe 400 proper assignments and then one false tag. Could they even add a function to detect this?

The next thing for me would be to research which management tools support face recognition and what they use to do it. Anything using what digikam uses would not be worth trying to me.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by oarsinsync » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

RyJones wrote: post #77

oarsinsync wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by detaching the fork?

You can send a ticket to GitHub support to have a project appear to have no parent project (detach the fork)

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation!

I think that's a terrible idea, disregarding the origins and removing an element of credit and attribution to the original authors. Be proud of where you came from, don't try to hide it.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by Bishonen88 » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

For anyone moving from google photos and looking for alternatives, I recently transitioned to a NAS from Synology. They offer many apps, and one is very similar to this project, although a bit more polished. It's not open source, though (AFAIK). Performance with 2TB of movies and raw photos is awesome (60k files+). Indexing and face recognition took a few days, though.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/moments

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by alisonkisk » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:05 PM UTC

Bishonen88 wrote: post #93

For anyone moving from google photos and looking for alternatives, I recently transitioned to a NAS from Synology. They offer many apps, and one is very similar to this project, although a bit more polished. It's not open source, though (AFAIK). Performance with 2TB of movies and raw photos is awesome (60k files+). Indexing and face recognition took a few days, though. https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/m…

It's amazing that synology would hold themselves back with a proprietary app when they are trying to sell hardware and are competing against Google and Apple.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by alisonkisk » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:06 PM UTC

zaroth wrote: post #87

> You will need at least 10 GB of HDD Space for the docker images. It needs that space because of the machine learning models. Are face detection models on the iPhone not run locally? Do they take up this much space on-device? Multi GBs just seems “large” for this?

Docker Image means it includes an extra OS install. Your iPhone uses the same OS for all apps.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by grishka » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #44

There are two projects I would mention in the same spirit: - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed While I think photoprism has a very similar scope, pixelfed has stronger emphasis on federation. The project website gives a nice overview over different providers: https://pixelfed.org/

Pixelfed though is more of an Instagram replacement. It's for publishing photos as opposed to archiving and managing them.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by alisonkisk » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

oarsinsync wrote: post #92

RyJones wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can send a ticket to GitHub support to have a project appear to have no parent project (detach the fork)

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! I think that's a terrible idea, disregarding the origins and removing an element of credit and attribution to the original authors. Be proud of where you came from, don't try to hide it.

The problem is that the original is defunct but "fork" on GitHub assumes that the fork is going to merge changes upstream.

Credit goes in the credits file, not polluting every interaction with the project.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by alisonkisk » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

74d-fe6-2c6 wrote: post #47

How does DropBox handle customer data? Is it protected from any analysis or scanning at least according to the ToS? Or do they also inspect and/or sell my data?

https://www.dropbox.com/terms

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by alisonkisk » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

Rotten194 wrote: post #24

mro_name wrote: post #18

I wonder what the purpose of such tools is. Archiving? Safe storage? Offering stock-photos for sale? Or just dropping an uncurated pile images into the interwebs? When publising curated photo-sets myself ( https://notabug.org/mro/Photos2Atom and rather sacrifice features but long-term robustness and installability.

Actually being able to find your photos, especially if you have friends and family who share photos with you and aren't willing to adapt to your organizational scheme. Google Photos really shines when you give up trying to organize your photos and let the AI take over. If I want to find a photo of my wife from 3 months ago -- I just tap on her face and it shows up, whether she took it or I did or her mom did, without…

You can takeout your photos and albums to store in a backup (locally or on another cloud provider)

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by dsego » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

Bishonen88 wrote: post #93

For anyone moving from google photos and looking for alternatives, I recently transitioned to a NAS from Synology. They offer many apps, and one is very similar to this project, although a bit more polished. It's not open source, though (AFAIK). Performance with 2TB of movies and raw photos is awesome (60k files+). Indexing and face recognition took a few days, though. https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/m…

A bit off-topic, but I've just bought a small 2-bay synology NAS and I'm wondering if I should go ext4 or btrfs for my family photos/videos. I like the idea of data safety features like checksums & scrubbing, but ext4 seems more robust & tested. Which did you go with?