Replies in-line. On 24 May 2016 at 06:57, Dr. Trigon <[email protected]> wrote: >> * incomplete uploads resulting from >> server failures. Checksum >> comparisons would mean re- >> downloading files, which would be >> unnecessarily bandwidth expensive, but >> local image analysis would >> highlight these. > > What about local checksum comparison?
Yes, we have SHA1 values for the Commons hosted images, however a local checksum is not normally available from the source (e.g. NYPL) which means re-downloading the original to do the comparison. As some of my uploads are over 100mb for one page, it's an expensive solution. >> * uploads that are mostly blank pages >> in old scanned books. I have a >> simple detection process, but it would >> be neat to have a more common >> standard way of doing this. > > Depends on the format. For PDF you can try to use Poppler/poppler-utils or > MuPDF. For images it will be bit more involved ... but intressting. Formats are normally jpeg or TIFF. My blank detection uses analysis of pixel colour deviations over parts of the image to deduce if it looks blank. This uses the basic Python Image Library rather than any sophisticated math. This can happen pre-upload by testing a client-side image. See <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Project_list/Internet_Archive#Blank_pages> ... >> Hi Fæ, >> >> Thanks a lot for the ideas ! >> The ideas you mentioned are awesome, and something I'll definitely look >> into ! >> >> The second and third ideas mentioned are, I believe, do-able within the >> scope of my GSoC. For the first idea to be implemented, as you mentioned >> local image analysis would be needed, which we've not planned (But i'll add >> it to the "to plan" list :) ). Currently we're planning on downloading the >> image and performing the analysis on ToolsLab or a personal computer. >> >> Thank you for the project list ! I was looking for a good dataset to test >> things out on and this will be immensely helpful. >> >> Regards >> Abdeali JK >> >> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> (Just replying on Commons-l with a non-tech observation. If more tech >>> stuff arises I'll add it to Phabricator instead) >>> >>> This looks like a useful contained project, though a lot to be done in >>> 12 weeks. :-) >>> >>> I was not familiar with catimages.py. It would be great if using the >>> module for the preparation or housekeeping of large batch uploads were >>> easy and not time consuming to try. As Commons grows we are seeing >>> more donations over 10,000 images and have had a few with over 1m. >>> Uploads of this size make manual categorization a huge hurdle, so >>> automatic 'tagging' of image characteristics would be a useful way of >>> breaking down such a large batch to highlight the more interesting >>> outliers or mistakes, which can then be prioritized on a backlog for >>> human review. >>> >>> For example, in my upload projects I have problems detecting: >>> * incomplete uploads resulting from server failures. Checksum >>> comparisons would mean re-downloading files, which would be >>> unnecessarily bandwidth expensive, but local image analysis would >>> highlight these. >>> * uploads that are mostly blank pages in old scanned books. I have a >>> simple detection process, but it would be neat to have a more common >>> standard way of doing this. >>> * distinguishing between scans with diagrams and line >>> drawings/cartoons, printed old photographs, newsprint and text pages. >>> >>> It would be great if the testing routines you use during the project >>> could tackle any of these and be written up as practical case studies. >>> >>> As well as the Phabricator write-up/tracking of the project, it would >>> be useful to have an on-wiki Commons or Mediawiki user guide. Perhaps >>> this can be sketched out as you go along during the project, giving an >>> insight into what other users or amateur Python programmers might do >>> to customize or make better use of the module? Having an more easy to >>> find manual, might avoid others going off on their own tangents using >>> various off the shelf image modules, when they could just plug in >>> catimages with a smallish amount of configuration. >>> >>> P.S. If you would like to test the tool on some large collections with >>> predictable formats, try looking through < >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Project list >. The 1/2 >>> million images in the book plates project would be an interesting >>> sample set. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Fae >>> >>> On 18 May 2016 at 02:53, Abdeali Kothari <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I'm a student from Chennai, India and my project is going to be related >>> > to >>> > performing image processing on the images on commons.wikimedia to >>> > automate >>> > categorization. DrTrigon had made the script catimages.py a few years >>> > ago >>> > which was made in the old pywikipedia-bot framework. I'll be working >>> > towards >>> > updating the script to the pywikibot-core framework, updating it's >>> > dependencies, and using newer techniques when possible. >>> > >>> > catimages.py is a script that analyzes an image using various computer >>> > vision algorithms and allots categories to the image on commons. For >>> > example, consider algorithms that detect faces, barcodes, etc. The >>> > script >>> > uses these to categorize images to Category:Unidentified People, >>> > Category:Barcode, and so on. >>> > >>> > If you have any suggestions and categorizations you think might be >>> > useful to >>> > you, drop in at #gsoc-catimages on freenode or my talk page[0]. You can >>> > find >>> > out more about me on User:AbdealiJK[1] and about the project at >>> > T129611[2]. >>> > >>> > Regards >>> > >>> > [0] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:AbdealiJK >>> > [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AbdealiJK >>> > [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129611 >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Commons-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae >>> Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. >> >> > > Dr. Trigon -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
