[Proposal pending] automatic tagging of photos of known persons

[baze]

how about using some kind of facial recognition for people in your address book which have an account picture to automatically tag new shot images with this person's name?
this way you could show something like "xx pictures" in the address book for contacts for example.

[sampppa]

Maybe someday :D

[pelago]

I don't know how likely facial recognition would be, but I like the idea of manually tagging photos with people's names, and linking that with contacts.

[JosefA]

I don't know how likely facial recognition would be, but I like the idea of manually tagging photos with people's names, and linking that with contacts.

Even easier, exposing contact list names as available tags?

[benny1967]

we had a thread here about tagging with names from the contacts list recently. should be merged maybe.

anyway, tagging with names is only a first step, no matter if done manually or by face recognition someday. it could probably be easily done, but we've found cases when this isn't particularly useful.

a 2nd step should add the ability to add information that's unique to a person to structured data fields in the image header. this way, a readable tag "birgit schmidt" would still be applied, but somewhere hidden in the image is the information that this photo "depicts the person who has the mail address bs@somemail.net and is known as biggsi on facebook". this information can be retrieved from the contacts application as soon as the user selects the name for tagging. it pretty much identifies a single person (rather than a group of people who happen to share the same name) and can be used across platforms and services; it's not specific to maemo or depend on one application.

[nymajoak]

we had a thread here about tagging with names from the contacts list recently. should be merged maybe.

This one (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32461), to be specific. Just in case anyone is interested.

[VDVsx]

Something along these lines was suggested/discussed by one of the co-creation groups (my group :P) at the summit: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32619&highlight=co-creation (N-rich)

[chemist]

Please create a Brainstorm item:
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/create/default/

and read the links in my sig.

[Fargus]

Does nobody else see a privacy issue here with embedding data in a picture? Also how are you going to update this metadata when some information changes?

[wheatbisc]

"someday"? Why someday?
The pictures viewer on macbooks got facerecognition! Or that's at least what a friend of mine showed me.
I might be missing something here ofc :P

[Dinho]

"someday"? Why someday?
The pictures viewer on macbooks got facerecognition! Or that's at least what a friend of mine showed me.
I might be missing something here ofc :P

You're right. iPhoto on Mac and Picasa both have face recognition for tagging from the address book. Many digital cameras have face recognition. It'd be nice if those two features were merged together in N900 :D.

[AlexDT]

"someday"? Why someday?
The pictures viewer on macbooks got facerecognition! Or that's at least what a friend of mine showed me.
I might be missing something here ofc :P

If Im not mistaken Sony Ericsson X10 will have it!

[chemist]

several cameras have facerecognition, like casio...

[ndi]

Really?

I saw cameras with face recognition and the manual said it recognizes faces as in, "ooooh, there's a face" not as in "Hi, Jim".

The cam recognition uses that to focus on softer shades on a face rather than a sharp easy-to-focus sweater model.

Is there a camera that recognizes the name of the person in the shot? This raises so many questions. Like, how come the compact Casio does stuff that four-figure muti-CPU DSLRs can't.

As for the Picasa PC software, that's a toy, not a tool.

[chemist]

yes, you save pictures of for example your family to the cam and it tries to focus on them if taking group pictures, my cam has face-smile recognition and thats not what I meant to tell...

a well and I have a touchscreen on my cam and can draw in the picture, make notes, edit... thats not wanted on DSLR semi-prof cams...

[ndi]

Yes, I read that but Dinho up there said "face recognition for tagging from the address book. Many digital cameras have face recognition", implying that a merge would allow an N900 user to snap a pic and then the N900 would auto-tag it as "Jim" because it recognized Jim in the shot. The cake is a lie.

I know of no algos that even remotely reliably do that. And neither work on 600MHz CPUs, ARM or not. That's why I said that the PC tool is a toy and if a Casio would do that Sony/Nikon/Canon would have a lot to answer for after selling those multi-thousand credits that can't do what a cam with the processing power of a wris****ch does.

In retrospect, that was a lot of text for a random thought :)

[quangmach]

there is one app on facebook does this...i dun remember exactly name of that app,but i did try it and work nicely...automatic regconize and tag people....u just tag 1 pic first and i will do all others for u

[chrisp7]

there is one app on facebook does this...i dun remember exactly name of that app,but i did try it and work nicely...automatic regconize and tag people....u just tag 1 pic first and i will do all others for u

its face.com

[slender]

As said installable picasa has this but picasa webalbums has also this fuinctionality.