MediaShow 5: Warning--Wide Load
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
8. MediaShow 5: Warning--Wide Load
A word of warning here. I tested all of these apps (except iPhoto, which was done on a MacBook Pro) on a Windows 7 system running an AMD Phenom II X4 model 955 with 4GB of RAM and dual Radeon HD 4550 and 4650 cards. As is usual for applications of this sort, CyberLink takes whatever system resources it can find in order to plough through the massive load of image analysis. You can see here how all four of my AMD cores redline at 100% the moment Media Show starts analyzing. Under such stress, the system becomes practically unusable. Just keep this in mind in case you want to perform analysis in the background while performing other tasks.
The only thing Media Show failed to read out of my test folder was my one TIF file. (It’s worth noting that, unlike iPhoto, Media Show had no trouble with my grayscale images, but iPhoto can not only read TIFs but also RAW images.) Otherwise, the program finished chewing on my 300-image group in just over five minutes. Unlike iPhoto, Media Show seeks to lean on the strength of its own recognition engine and group as many images as possible.
Media Show does not follow the iPhoto example of pointing at an empty field, handing you a shovel, and saying, “Here, get to work.” Instead, you’re going to drop into the Pending view under the Tag Faces tab and see collections of supposedly matching face associations gathered into groups. For example, my two sons were the most prevalent faces throughout my collection, so Media Show did it’s best to gather them into groups and place these groups at the top of the Pending results. Let’s say you get 25 faces in your first group and you can see all of those faces belong to the same person. You’d simply click the Select button at the top-left of the group, type in the person’s name, hit Enter, and now you’d have 25 face tags on your photos. Since it’s likely that the next few groups also contain clumpings of only a few people, you can apply literally hundreds of tags in under one minute at the outset. If you get a face in a group that doesn’t match, simply uncheck it to prevent it from being tagged with the name you give for the group. This is a very smart approach that blows iPhoto away and leverages CyberLink’s greatest asset: its analysis engine.
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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.