What Stpid Thing Have You Done Today? - Page 16

€uroMeinke · 01-23-2010, 12:14 AM

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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.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-23-2010, 12:38 AM

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 · 01-23-2010, 12:46 AM

I'm still working through phase 1

Ghoulish Delight · 01-23-2010, 01:27 AM

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 · 01-23-2010, 07:14 AM

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 · 01-23-2010, 04:54 PM

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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.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-23-2010, 04:59 PM

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

Thus why I have chosen not to take "advantage" of the feature that connects it to my online account.

Moonliner · 01-23-2010, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Thus why I have chosen not to take "advantage" of the feature that connects it to my online account.

True, but once Google starts data mining photos there are a lot of sources for photos. Like your facebook page for example. Of course you still have the beard there.....

Oh and just FYI: Glenfiddich is not really single malt. It's a blend.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-23-2010, 05:55 PM

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True, but once Google starts data mining photos there are a lot of sources for photos. Like your facebook page for example. Of course you still have the beard there.....

It's also set to private.

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Oh and just FYI: Glenfiddich is not really single malt. It's a blend.

The common usage of "single malt" is to indicate that it's distilled in a single distillery, not necessarily that it's bottled directly from a single cask. So while the whiskey/scotch sold commercially by Glenfiddich (or any other whiskey distillery) is indeed a blend from different casks, it is still considered a "single malt" as they have only the single distillery. A "blended whisky" is used to refer to a bottle that's a blend of single malt whiskey and "grain whiskey" (i.e., whiskey made from something other than barley), which Glenfiddich is not. A whiskey that is produced by blending single malts from different distilleries is called a "vatted malt".

JWBear · 01-23-2010, 07:01 PM

So...

I'm doing laundry. I took the first load out of the dryer and put it in a basket. I then took the wet second load out of the washer and put it in the dryer. I started the washer for the third load, and poured the detergent in. Then I started putting clothes in the washer. I was about 3/4 of the way emptying the basket when i realized that it was the basket of clean clothes that I just took out of the dryer...

Old age really is setting in.

01-23-2010, 12:38 AM	#152
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	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. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	I'm still working through phase 1 __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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01-23-2010, 01:27 AM	#154
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	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? __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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01-23-2010, 07:14 AM	#155
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	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."
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JWBear Worn Romantic Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Long Beach California Posts: 8,435	So... I'm doing laundry. I took the first load out of the dryer and put it in a basket. I then took the wet second load out of the washer and put it in the dryer. I started the washer for the third load, and poured the detergent in. Then I started putting clothes in the washer. I was about 3/4 of the way emptying the basket when i realized that it was the basket of clean clothes that I just took out of the dryer... Old age really is setting in. __________________ Unrestrained frivolity will lead to the downfall of modern society.
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