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A feature I've long wanted to see in a photo management tool is ranking based on pairwise comparisons. Say you went on a trip and had 200 "keeper" photos, but t
by kpozin 6y ago
A feature I've long wanted to see in a photo management tool is ranking based on pairwise comparisons. Say you went on a trip and had 200 "keeper" photos, but that's still too many to publish in an online album, and many of them are near-duplicates anyway.
If the photo manager let you compare any set of photos two at a time, you could (with n-choose-2 keypresses) find something close to a total order of the set. Then you'd easily be able to choose the best photos of the whole set, as well as the best ones of each subject/set of duplicates. No machine learning would be required.
Has anyone encountered a tool like this?
Edit: You wouldn't get a stable total order because the pairwise comparisons might not hold transitively, but something like Elo ranking could work here.
- Amatewasu 6y agoI created an Android app to rank your photos (up to 30 at a time) using an AI (it is a new feature, I did not update the play store page yet). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.delrieu.bestphoto https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.delrieu.bes...
- mceachen 6y agoPhotoStructure has image comparison heuristics that is used for deduping, but would enable pairwise similarity grouping. I'd tried some transfer learning in the past to rank photos, but found it to be unusably noisy. I'll be trying again, though, with some new approaches. Fwiw, your PhotoStructure library has a carefully designed schema to let SQLite queries like this be trivial. It's an interesting idea to let users pick bests out of near duplicates (and maybe prompt the user to workthrough this UI flow on album creation). I've put it on my to-do list!