On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:57 +0200, Valentín wrote:
> Hi Vincent!
> 
> > The people tagging system will be implemented into Shotwell 0.10 through
> > this request: hierarchical tags <http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401>
> 
> I have read that and I don't see any relation with my people-tagging
> proposal. That is about having hierarchical tags, but my proposal is
> to have... I don't know how to explain it... maybe I could say
> positional tags, a tag that is attached to some area of a photo rather
> than to an entire photo. This way we could tag people faces to not
> only know that a concrete person is in some photo, but also know
> where.
> 
> Do you understand me?

Valentin,

I think you're right and hierarchical tags are not really related to
what you are talking about. You could implement positional tags like
Facebook does: a lot simpler than face recognition but would do the
trick. You can then add face recognition later to automate (or partially
automate) the process.

Having said this, even implementing the simple version of positional
tags is not straightforward as you would have to change the Shotwell
database schema to implement the tag-photo link outside of the tag table
so that you can assign the position on a tag+photo basis. Not the end of
the world but it would need to be done carefully and with the right
hooks to upgrade the database schema when users upgrade Shotwell.


> 
> I think that this would be the first step to implement
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1702 --and the face recognition feature
> would automatize the process.

I'd actually consider this as the last piece to implement: get the
positional tags with manual tagging (à la Facebook) working first and
then you can add face recognition on top to automate it.

Cheers,

Bruno


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