On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 ? > +1, I will add this document to the wiki as this adheres to the current working implementation. "Live website" ?? Are we going to host a standalone photark ? > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- Subash Chaturanga Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka Blog - http://subashsdm.blogspot.com/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/subash89
