If you're interested in seeing what we're talking about, try downloading the latest alpha build on to your Android device at http://android-builds.wmflabs.org/ and take a look. :-)
Dan On 9 November 2014 22:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Dmitry Brant, 10/11/2014 04:41: > >> Just throwing this out there: >> Would it be possible to have a script that crawls through images on >> Commons, detects faces in the images, and embeds the x,y position of the >> face(s) into the File page of the image (or into the Exif data of the >> image) >> > > We have https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_annotations . If > you can do this programmatically and reliably, you should make a bot and > ask authorisation to run it over all images: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Requests > > (and makes this information available via the API)? >> > > You could, say, make some parser function in the CommonsMetadata extension > to expose in the API the data (format) we already have. Or just make the > PageImages extension alter the thumbnail it exposes, and use that one. > > >> For a little context -- in our mobile apps, we'll be featuring images >> related to the article that the user is browsing; >> > > Why? Featuring as in showing outside normal places? Related as in not > included in the article? > > I don't yet understand what you're up to here, but the obvious and > standard way to do something like this would be fixing > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7757 and use cropped > images only when considered appropriate by the article authors. > > Nemo > > however, the way that >> we're cropping the images sometimes has the side effect of cropping out >> the face of the subject (when the face is far from the center of the >> image). Even though we can do face detection locally on the user's >> device, it can be a bit slow and a bit intensive. It would be great if >> this task was offloaded, and the face position was returned right along >> with the image itself... >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
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