The trainable face classifier will go a long way. I've been unfortunately trained by Google's unlimited upload behaviour that it's going to be impossible to parse through my archive without Google's semantic identification of contents.
LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
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#72Looking at this project and some of the alternatives provided, they seem to be quite memory hungry. I assume this is related to the ML model. Is there any way to run this (or one fo the alternatives) in a "Lite" mode without any ML? I see that Photoprism has a ton of flags, but it's not obvious how those affect memory usage.
Yeah, I think for users of Google Photos, the ML was a big part of it. Lots of other options without, I’ve used and like Lychee (1).
Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
#73Looking at this project and some of the alternatives provided, they seem to be quite memory hungry. I assume this is related to the ML model. Is there any way to run this (or one fo the alternatives) in a "Lite" mode without any ML? I see that Photoprism has a ton of flags, but it's not obvious how those affect memory usage.
PhotoPrism uses TensorFlow for the image classification / ML stuff (to add labels to your images), but it can be completely disabled via a flag (or toggle under advanced settings) before you begin indexing if you don't need it.
PhotoPrism's ML object detection is no doubt not as powerful as Google's, but it seems to work pretty well based on the demo, and I know the devs are working on improving it frequently.
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#74There 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/
Love seeing Pixelfed mentioned here. I've thought of it as an Instagram replacement but if it's practical as a Google photos alternative that's an added bonus.
It's a Fediverse program (uses ActivityPub) which lets people follow Pixelfed servers from any Mastoson, Pleroma or other server that implements ActivityPub. PeerTube is a similar service for video hosting.
The Fediverse is the future, and the future is distributed.
Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
#75How do this and the other alternatives handle Apple’s “Live Photos”? This pernicious feature is adored in my family and they won’t consider options that would take it away.
In the Android world, Samsung and Google support eachothers live picture format. As far as I can tell for Google they embed video in the picture, Samsung has their own format for this.
Im on an older version of android and the live photos dont have the snappiness of Apple's, but that could be a processor power issue or even stylistic choice. Particularly the length of the live photo is noticeably different.
Im not sure how Apple stores the live picture info, but having it crossplatform would be fantastic for services like these.
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#76How do this and the other alternatives handle Apple’s “Live Photos”? This pernicious feature is adored in my family and they won’t consider options that would take it away.
Is this the same thing as Samsung's Motion Photo? If so, it is just a .mp4 attached to the jpeg, should be easy to support in the future.
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#77Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
#78There 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/
Photoprism looks great, thanks! I've been looking for a project like this, but my biggest requirement is that it doesn't move my photos from where they are, which no project I've found can satisfy. Everything insists on moving things to its own store.
I have the exact same issue. I've been looking for something that will just work and have both facial detection and "object" detection (dogs mostly). I think I tried photoprism a long time ago and it failed on my requirements unfortunately.
Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
#79There 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/
Photoprism looks great, thanks! I've been looking for a project like this, but my biggest requirement is that it doesn't move my photos from where they are, which no project I've found can satisfy. Everything insists on moving things to its own store.
Photoprism doesn't move photos around, I ran it in a docker container and just mounted my existing folder to /photoprism/originals and it worked fine.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s a subset of users who click the takeout button, get the message saying we’ll email you in a bit and then... nothing. If you’re affected it’s not possible to get help from Google according to Mike Elgin. I did a full export (circa 8Gb) around 18 months ago and i have around 1,000 pictures of someone else’s in my archives. I suppose other people have some of my pictures too.
Were the photos shared with you? or a security hole leaking private photos of random people??
It’s just under 1,000 photos of various landscapes but they’re not landscapes i’ve seen IRL and the smoking gun is the EXIF data shows they were taken on a Canon camera. I’ve only ever had Nikon or Fuji.
There’s a bunch of other small things that initially roused my suspicions that these weren’t my photos:
Whoever took the photos kept all the photos they took, there are sequences of 50+ photos of the exact same thing, I never save the extra shots, i always just choose the one i want to keep and discard the rest at import time.
It’s possible they were shared photos but my gut feeling is no. The photos date from around the time i was a heavy user of google photos, well i was a heavy user of picasa anyway and used gphotos as a backup. I would definitely have spotted these photos if they were in my collection back then.