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I don't really "amass" photos that much, but for what it's worth, I auto-rename all photos to yy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss first thing I do after deleting the ones I don't

I don't really "amass" photos that much, but for what it's worth, I auto-rename all photos to yy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss first thing I do after deleting the ones I don't want to keep. From then on out it's pretty much just a tree of folders, with the ones that have a lot of photos in them having additional subfolders per year. So far I never even had use for using tags, and my main tool is still the delete key followed by enter :)

DanBC 12y ago
How do you find all the photos of Bob?
- Spearchucker 12y ago
  That's a great question and one I haven't solved for my scenario other than knowing who was with me when I did x at y. The idea is to tag photos in a database (photo location and name, plus tags). One of many things on my todo list.
- java-man 12y ago
  Does anyone know of an open source (BSD/Apache) face detection/recognition algorithm? It would be relatively easy to plug it in into my Secure Digital Archive tool.
  - dunham 12y ago
    OpenCV does detection. I haven't found anything to do recognition, I suspect it's a much harder problem. It's not open source, but in the past I've used picassa to do recognition. You let it run, interact with it to resolve ambiguities, and then pull the face assignments/rectangles out of the .picasa.ini files that it drops next to your photos. (There was also a contacts.xml file somewhere that provided the mapping from a guid to name/email.)
  - rokhayakebe 12y ago
    Jason Calacanis interviewed this company (http://www.kairos.com/pricing http://www.kairos.com/pricing) last week. While not OS, you can implement their product and get 5000 free api calls per month which should take care of your personal library.
  - java-man 12y ago
    @dunham: thanks for suggestion! openCV is c/c++, and for security reasons I can't use external tools.
- PavlovsCat 12y ago
  That's the "tree structure" bit, it's either in archive/people/[location]/Bob or archive/people/[location]/Multi/Bob & [x] archive/people/[location]/Multi/Bob & [y] (with "location" being usually a city or country name; it's not so much about where the photo was taken but rather about "where do I know this person from")
  - turar 12y ago
    What about photos of Bob with his cat?
    - PavlovsCat 12y ago
      They'll be somewhere in that Bob folder ^^ If there are a lot, and the distinction seems important, they get their own folder, and when the permutations get too much, I would go for tags, but that didn't come up for me yet. And really I meant it when I said my main tool is the delete key: I don't need 50 photos of a person laughing a certain way at a party, I just need one, if even that, and I don't need one for every party either, I keep the good ones. Generally speaking, the more photos of a particular subject I have, the higher the selection pressure; the absolute number still grows, but not in linear relation to the number of photos I take. I understand that my answer to the problem is a crappy one, namely "enjoy curating your photos and occasionally culling those who have become redundant or obsolete". But for what it's worth, it's how I do it :)

DanBC 12y ago

How do you find all the photos of Bob?

Spearchucker 12y ago
That's a great question and one I haven't solved for my scenario other than knowing who was with me when I did x at y. The idea is to tag photos in a database (photo location and name, plus tags). One of many things on my todo list.
java-man 12y ago
Does anyone know of an open source (BSD/Apache) face detection/recognition algorithm? It would be relatively easy to plug it in into my Secure Digital Archive tool.
- dunham 12y ago
  OpenCV does detection. I haven't found anything to do recognition, I suspect it's a much harder problem. It's not open source, but in the past I've used picassa to do recognition. You let it run, interact with it to resolve ambiguities, and then pull the face assignments/rectangles out of the .picasa.ini files that it drops next to your photos. (There was also a contacts.xml file somewhere that provided the mapping from a guid to name/email.)
- rokhayakebe 12y ago
  Jason Calacanis interviewed this company (http://www.kairos.com/pricing http://www.kairos.com/pricing) last week. While not OS, you can implement their product and get 5000 free api calls per month which should take care of your personal library.
- java-man 12y ago
  @dunham: thanks for suggestion! openCV is c/c++, and for security reasons I can't use external tools.
PavlovsCat 12y ago
That's the "tree structure" bit, it's either in archive/people/[location]/Bob or archive/people/[location]/Multi/Bob & [x] archive/people/[location]/Multi/Bob & [y] (with "location" being usually a city or country name; it's not so much about where the photo was taken but rather about "where do I know this person from")
- turar 12y ago
  What about photos of Bob with his cat?
  - PavlovsCat 12y ago
    They'll be somewhere in that Bob folder ^^ If there are a lot, and the distinction seems important, they get their own folder, and when the permutations get too much, I would go for tags, but that didn't come up for me yet. And really I meant it when I said my main tool is the delete key: I don't need 50 photos of a person laughing a certain way at a party, I just need one, if even that, and I don't need one for every party either, I keep the good ones. Generally speaking, the more photos of a particular subject I have, the higher the selection pressure; the absolute number still grows, but not in linear relation to the number of photos I take. I understand that my answer to the problem is a crappy one, namely "enjoy curating your photos and occasionally culling those who have become redundant or obsolete". But for what it's worth, it's how I do it :)