WLPG: Naming, Bonus Round
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: facial, recognition, tagging | Themes: Software
- 1. The Tagging Challenge
- 2. Apple iPhoto ‘09
- 3. Apple iPhoto ‘09: First iPhoto Steps
- 4. Apple iPhoto ‘09: Wrinkles in Faces
- 5. Apple iPhoto ‘09: Funny Faces
- 6. iPhoto Analysis
- 7. CyberLink MediaShow 5
- 8. MediaShow 5: Warning--Wide Load
- 9. MediaShow 5: UI and Criticisms
- 10. MediaShow 5: Criticisms, Cont'd
- 11. MediaShow 5: Analysis
- 12. Face.com Photo Tagger
- 13. Photo Tagger: Opening Accuracy
- 14. Photo Tagger: The Tagging Process
- 15. Photo Tagger: Working With Photo Finder
- 16. Photo Tagger Analysis
- 17. Google Picasa 3.5
- 18. The Picasa Name Game
- 19. Picasa’s No Dog
- 20. Picasa Analysis
- 21. Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery
- 22. WLPG: Name On!
- 23. WLPG: Naming, Bonus Round
- 24. WLPG: Analysis
- 25. More on this topic
23. WLPG: Naming, Bonus Round
The only glaring problem I saw with Microsoft’s UI is that you must hit the Back to gallery button and return to the gallery before you can select the next image to audit/edit. Obviously, this balloons your total click count. On the other hand, returning to the gallery allows you to see a bunch of upcoming thumbnails. In my case, this was good because it allowed me to jump over groups of images I had no interest in tagging. If you get distracted and forget which image you last tagged, it’s fine because when you select a thumbnail Live Photo Gallery shows you the number and/or names of people already tagged in the image. As in Picasa, if you need bigger thumbnails, use the slider at the bottom-right corner of the screen to change the preview size.
The reality is that Microsoft’s method is pretty darned decent. I rarely spent more than 10 seconds on an image, and it was nearly as quick to make and name a tag that didn’t exist as it was to name one already created. If you have two people in an image and Microsoft has already tagged one of the faces, place a name on this one first. Once this is done, your mouse pointer automatically turns into crosshairs, so you only need to click on the second face to create a box for it. It’s the same number of clicks and amount of mouse movement you’d have if the second face were already tagged. I dig that.
I had one image on which I messed up and picked the wrong name for the tag. I tried to select a new name for the tag and ended up with two names on one tag. No problem. You just go over to the People tags list and hit the X icon next to the name you want to ditch. The app will confirm that you really want to remove the tag, then it’s done.
All told, a complete sweep through my folder took 19 minutes and yielded 33 tags for me, 88 for Devon, 75 for Garrett, and 36 for Knico. Clearly, these numbers are below the audit results of prior face taggers, so I had to go back for another pass, checking each prospective thumbnail against the People tags shown on the right. Very quickly, I realized that the images I’d named were only those that Live Photo Gallery had tagged. The raft of images that had gone untagged remained untouched. So going back for another complete audit and naming round bumped the total audit/edit time up to 36 minutes.
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1. let just say I have spend weekly time on a low end pc to get 33 GB photo with so many file. How do I save this tag when I am reinstall windows?
2. About the portabilty in no 1. Picasa has picasa.ini in every folder, but when it corrupt, the picasa.ini is not helpful recovering the weekly time spent.
3. Speed? Why there is no benchmark graph like usual?
4. Try gradiation photos or something similiar. It will see about the acuration.
5. I want to get the best speed, what is the most needed hardware. If Processor will I7 better than C2D? If GPU, will Geforce GTX 295 better than 9800?
I have private paint experience using picasa. I have taging many face in a week of Sempron 2800+ OC to 2 Ghz. When the face recognation is done, for what ever reason, my cpu is dead (dead power electricity). When the electricity power is up, my pc is on windows. The picasa is corrupt. My one week OC is for nothing. DAMN
I recently tagged all my photos with Picasa. I think i personally tagged more than the software did--the software is VERY cautious. It also repeatedly asked to tag posters, even paintings that were on my walls. Finally, it doesn't do well with babies--which is no surprise because they all look the same to me too :-)
Its cool, but im not sure the outcome was worth sitting there tagging hundreds of pictures of ex-girlfriends.
I am giving comment for testing.
Deadlockedworld--you don't have to tag everyone in every album in Picasa--just don't tag albums that have your exes in them. I definitely don't tag everyone in my photos--only those people that are important to me.
Adobe's Photoshop Elements 7 has the ability to detect faces but not automatically match them. It did make tagging much quicker. I could select 40 pictures from a party and tag the lot all at once.
However, I found that there were several pictures that it didn't catch. So, I ended up having to go through the whole bunch manually anyway to catch the stragglers. I found I spent as much time, if not more, making sure I got everything. So, I'm not sure that the "helpful tool" actually did much.
I am using iPhoto '09 and I found that the predictive tagging is getting less and less accurate as the database of tagged faces increases. Impression confirmed by one of my friends using the same app. For example, my wife is probably the most frequent face in my collection and the software has a hard time identifying her. On the other hand, I tagged the face of a friend I see rarely and I was welcomed with 4-5 good matches.