[horde] Ansel faces

Simon Wilson simon at simonandkate.net
Sat Apr 13 07:20:09 UTC 2013


----- Message from Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> ---------
     Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:22:59 -0400
     From: Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
Reply-To: mrubinsk at horde.org
  Subject: Re: [horde] Ansel faces
       To: horde at lists.horde.org


> Quoting Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net>:
>
>> Horde 5.0.4, Ansel 3.0.0-git, updated from git today. facedetect is
>> installed and recognised by test.php. Ansel is configured to use it. 
>>
>> I have a gallery with a single photo, with three people in it. 
>>
>> In Chrome, launching the Gallery's Find Faces function opens a page
>> that says "Searching for faces in Test gallery for faces". On the
>> right of the one photo it says "Loading". And never does anything
>> else. If I click on "reget faces for this photo" I get an immediate
>> and reproducible every time apache segfault.
>>
>> No faces are recognised. 
>
> I've had nothing but headaches with the facedetect library. I had much
> better success with another, no longer available, library (can't
> remember the name of it off hand, but it seems to have simply
> disappeared off the face of the planet).
>
> Anyway, face stuff in Ansel is still obviously somewhat broken. I
> haven't had time to spend to figure out why facedetect won't
> compile/load on my system so I can't debug it right now.
>
>> If I click on Add a custom face range, the photo is loaded with a
>> small movable box. Except the box is not moveable. :)
>
> This works for me. It's how I've been using face support for a while
> now, since I can't get the PECL extension to work right.
>
>> In IE9 the "Loading" but never showing and the segfault issues are
>> the same, but the moveable box works, and a face can be manually
>> added.
>
> Haven't tested IE9 with Ansel. Will have to test next time I load up
> the Windows VM for testing.
>
>> However the Faces are never listed on the "Searching for faces" page.
>>
>> I can also not see a way to remove the faces once they are assigned
>> - nothing that I can see in the photo's page?
>
> If you click the "Edit Faces" link in the "People in this Photo"
> widget, you will get fields to edit/delete each face you've added.
>

I don't see a "People in this Photo" widget anywhere.

>> Finally - libpuzzle.
>>
>> $conf[faces][search] is set to 0, which I believe is default? I have
>> libpuzzle installed, but no idea what to set the value to to make it
>> work, and the text:
>
> At one point, this defaulted to 5. The entire idea behind how
> libpuzzle works is just not really favorable for such small images
> that all contain faces. I've never gotten this to work to any degree
> of accuracy...and it uses TONS of database storage to store the index
> chunks. I've never liked this feature, but the code was contributed
> and lots of people expressed interest, so...
>
>> "Enable the similar photo functionality for finding similar faces?
>> Set to 0 to disable, or enter the size, in bytes, that should be
>> used as the photo's index length. If you don't know what this is,
>> the default value should be OK for most people. You need the
>> libpuzzle pecl extension to use this feature"
>>
>> is of no help at all in working out what to set it to. The default
>> value, which "should be OK for most people" is 0 - which disables it. 
>
> Well, that's the best value for me :P

:) Noted.

Thanks Mike.


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>
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