On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Suhothayan Sriskandarajah <suhotha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 March 2012 10:35, Pubudu Dissanayake <pubud...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Suho >> Seems like this an interesting idea.Building a meta data model for the >> existing photo library is a very important and more flexible as well. I >> have few questions regarding about your suggestions >> > > Hi Pubuthu > > Its nice to hear your interested in this project. > > Since Luciano's project idea is to aggregate photos from various streams > and display them in a single gallery. > my idea is extending this idea where by enhancing the gallery to add > various meta information of photos like when this was taken, where this was > taken, tagging the photos, and adding who is in the picture, and for Gsoc > I'm expecting the student should build a gallery that can show photos > according to the meta information provided or when possible automatically > gathered. > E.g > show all pics where Mr.John was present, show all pics which are taken in > Los-angels. > > 1. As i understood you are referring to the EXIF information of the photo >> is that correct ?? >> > yes part of the data can be gathered from the EXIF information like image > size, shooting date and time, > but others the user or the data source has to provide > > 2. following data tags can be retrieve form a single image itself >> * Embed image information include Exif tags, Tiff tags and Gps >> tags. >> > +1 > this depends on the data source also, for the photos taken from the phone > will have more information but > the photos which we get from our flicker account wont have all that info, > at this point the user have to provide. > > 3. "x,y coordination of there positions" what did u mean by that ?? (GPS >> Tags) ?? >> >> No I was referring to the face location of people in the picture. by > knowing that we can precisely show where Mr.John is in the portrait > > >> if u can collateralize more on this idea that would be really helpful :) >> > > Hope the above information is helpful > > Regards > Suho > >
What are you considering as storage choices for all these metadata ? -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
