Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management • Hacker News Board

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by techntoke » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:24 PM UTC

I'm currently using Google Photos for facial recognition, however since they broke their Google Drive integration I'd like to move away from it. For now I am using a combination of Syncthing, the Google Photos interface and rclone.

Is there an API or potential to use this in headless for integration in other apps such as web or Android? What about the automated cards and animations that Google Photos creates? Is there anything like that for Digikam or another app that can be self-hosted?

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by andialo » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:26 PM UTC

How reliable is the face recognition in 7.0? In older versions it was not as good as closed source software like picasa.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by gsich » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by chris_st » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

andialo wrote: post #12

How reliable is the face recognition in 7.0? In older versions it was not as good as closed source software like picasa.

See the "Deep-Learning Powered Faces Management" section of the linked document for a lot more information. Specifically, they mention that they replaced the old (OpenCV) algorithm with a new neural-net based one.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

gsich wrote: post #13

Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.

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Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by dreamcompiler » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

I'm happy to hear this and hope it works. Apple's iPhoto used to do good face recognition but as soon as you exported photos the information was lost. I hope this can store the face rectangles and their IDs in the photo's metadata.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by williesleg » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

Gotta grab the faces eh?

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by williesleg » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

Nice to see they love grabbing face data! Where's it go?

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

gsich wrote: post #13

Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.

This comment seems mean, perhaps. But, Picasa's facial recognition was far better than Digikam's and I marveled at how Picasa could do so quickly, so long ago, what Digikam has failed to do (until now?).

I've been a Digikam user for a long time now, it's really useful for me, but the whole face-tagging system has been really poor for a long time IMO (eg all faces recognised in one image as same person; all tags recognised as being the last person manually tagged).

It's one thing I'd love to have donated to a bounty on as it saves a lot of time to have working tagging.

I wonder if there are plans to add other types of tagging, object recognition or what-have-you.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by beojan » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 3:36 PM UTC

brnt wrote: post #10

jhoechtl wrote: post #7

KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, wayland-support and scaling. Gnome shines in these respecst. I wish thebest of both worlds!

I don't really have problems with multi monitor and KDE.

Nor do I.