What Stpid Thing Have You Done Today?

[cirquelover]

I got out of bed today, a very stupid thing to do obviously!

[Ghoulish Delight]

I stupidly downloaded Picasa to have it scan through our photos with its face recognition software. Only after 2 days of working with it did I read some advice that said, "If you have a lot of photos already and are somewhat of a perfectionist, don't bother." A week later, on the one hand, I'm glad I didn't see that else I would never have gotten as far as I have. On the other hand, holy hell has this been tedious.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I stupidly downloaded Picasa to have it scan through our photos with its face recognition software. Only after 2 days of working with it did I read some advice that said, "If you have a lot of photos already and are somewhat of a perfectionist, don't bother." A week later, on the one hand, I'm glad I didn't see that else I would never have gotten as far as I have. On the other hand, holy hell has this been tedious.

I find that has become my new solitaire - anytime I'm just killing time in front of the computer - or I'll just open it up in the background to start cataloging away.

One interesting side effect is it adds people to your Gmail contacts - so now I have the likes of Freidrich Nietzsche, Hugh Hefner, and Salma Hayak listed in my address book with other people I know.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Tedious?! You have been totally addicted to the "game" of telling it who is who. I'll never believe you didn't enjoy it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Hey, I've been away from work for 2 weeks. I can only go so long without my fix of mindlessly staring at a computer screen completing a repetitive thankless task. But just because I'm an addict doesn't mean I enjoy it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I never initiated the actual link to my Google account. Seemed like it would become a little to invasive for my taste.

I'm done with the first level cataloging, I've got names on all the faces that Picasa picked up on (or told it to ignore all of the faces in crowds, photos on walls, and disneyland photo mosaics that it picked up on). Now comes the even more time and labor intensive phase of manually tagging faces that it didn't pick up on because they were slightly tilted or whatever.

[€uroMeinke]

I'm still working through phase 1

[Ghoulish Delight]

Have you discovered the "threshold" settings? (Tools->Options->Name Tags). I found that dropping the "Suggestion Threshold" down to 70 gave a pretty decent correct match::false match ratio that reduced some of the manual tagging without adding too much manual work of fixing wrong matches. Lower than that started to return too many false positives.

Dropping the "Cluster Threshold" below 85 started to screw up the grouping of faces to a degree that was leading to too many incorrectly tagged names, so I wouldn't go lower than that.

You haven't found a keyboard shortcut for the "Add Person Manually" button have you?

[Alex]

I save a lot of potential tagging work by almost never taking pictures of people, and in those rare occasions when I do take pictures of people they are almost always people I don't know.

What I would need is for Picasa (or some other program) to have an auto-recognize feature that could say "oh, that's the meadow at Yosemite" or "that appears to be the view of the bay from Point Pinole."

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

I save a lot of potential tagging work by almost never taking pictures of people, and in those rare occasions when I do take pictures of people they are almost always people I don't know.

I wonder how long it will be before you can Google/Picasa those photos you took and identify the people in them.