On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Subash Chaturanga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The documentation of using Photark face apps has not still changed. So you > can follow the explained procedure as before and train your indexes. So > friend finding can be done either in Facebook or from your private name > space. > > - There is a drop down to select from which domain you want to search your > friends. > - If you choose Facebook, no need to provide your friends user names, > because the app finds all your Facebook friends and recognizes them. > - If you choose, "Private Name Space", then you have to specify a user name > of an already trained one of your friends (i.e [email protected] ) NOTE: All > user names must be ended with [email protected]. > > Then hit the Recognize button to view your friends in gallery images. > > Please try these two apps in your free times, and give your valuable > feedbacks.. :-) > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Subash Chaturanga <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Hi devs,* >> * >> * >> *This is a sample documentation which describes how to use Face >> Recognition functionality.* >> * >> * >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Photark Gallery provides a link to visit Face Applications. >> >> There, you are provided two main apps as options. >> - Facebook Friend Finder >> - Generic Face Recognition >> >> Both these apps are trying to recognize your friends in your PhotArk >> albums. Facebook Friend Finder finds your friends while Generic Face >> Recognition app finds friends who are trained in your private name space >> (which is [email protected] ) >> >> The recognition facility is provided during the album navigation in the >> gallery. >> >> So before trying to recognize any of your friends from either your private >> namespace domain or from Facebook, you need to tell these apps how your >> friends looks like. >> For that simply, you can train the system by the images of your friends and >> their corresponding names(user names). Lets see how to train PhotArk Face >> App Indexes. >> >> *- Generic Face Recognition* >> >> Here, this is related to the friends in your private name space. This can >> be done this by providing an image of your friend as a URL or a local image >> path with a suitable username and a label for the ease of identification. >> The more you train your friend, the accuracy will be increased. >> >> i.e Fill the following fields as >> >> Copy Image File Path - /home/subash/pictures/adam.jpeg >> Train Username - [email protected] >> User Label(optional) - Adam Gilly >> >> And hit the train button. This will update the photark face index with your >> friend. You can train Adam with couple of more of his pictures under his >> username "[email protected]". >> >> * - Facebook Friend Finder* >> >> In this case you don't need to provide images of your friends like in the >> previous app. Because in Facebook, your friends are already tagged in your >> albums. So this app goes through all your friends tagged images and train >> them with their Facebook usernames. You only need to give the userId of your >> friend and system will train your friend. This app doesn't train all your >> friends at startup due to the startup overhead and also you might not want >> to train all your Facebook friends for photark. >> >> - First click Authenticate Facebook button to provide access of your >> Facebook profile to this app. >> - Then provide the user ids of your facebook friends and train them. >> >> i.e fill the field >> >> Train user name - [email protected] ( or any legal format of your >> friends username) >> And hit the Train button to train. Simple as that. >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> Subash Chaturanga >> Department of Computer Science & Engineering >> University of Moratuwa >> Sri Lanka >> >> Blog - http://subashsdm.blogspot.com/ >> Twitter - http://twitter.com/subash89 >> >> >> > > Thanks
Should we start moving these to the wiki, which will then make the live website ? -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
