2010-04-18, 13:56
Hi,
Recently I've beginning to think that browsing pictures in XBMC is seriously lagging behind movies/shows or music. I love my movies collection or my music one. I can browse them using really cool skin/views and search by almost any criteria. However, the picture browsing of my photos is somehow simple, move through my photos directories, left and then slideshow... nothing more..
What I am thinking is, would it be difficult to implement some geo position browsing? So a picture view in the skin can show a map on the right showing the position of all your photos (if geo-tagged) and you can browse by position (similar to what picassa does). So for instance you can slideshow all photos from the same city...
Also, maybe with a simple face detection algorithm (from opencv), it is possible to implement a search for specific people in photos. User intervention is needed to tag the face with a name (as doing face recognition might be a lot more hard) and use that info for search/browsing. This is done in picassa actually and I find it very good...
What do you think? Possible to implement? Too much hassle for just doing slideshow of pictures? Or maybe is something way beyond of what a media center should do?
Recently I've beginning to think that browsing pictures in XBMC is seriously lagging behind movies/shows or music. I love my movies collection or my music one. I can browse them using really cool skin/views and search by almost any criteria. However, the picture browsing of my photos is somehow simple, move through my photos directories, left and then slideshow... nothing more..
What I am thinking is, would it be difficult to implement some geo position browsing? So a picture view in the skin can show a map on the right showing the position of all your photos (if geo-tagged) and you can browse by position (similar to what picassa does). So for instance you can slideshow all photos from the same city...
Also, maybe with a simple face detection algorithm (from opencv), it is possible to implement a search for specific people in photos. User intervention is needed to tag the face with a name (as doing face recognition might be a lot more hard) and use that info for search/browsing. This is done in picassa actually and I find it very good...
What do you think? Possible to implement? Too much hassle for just doing slideshow of pictures? Or maybe is something way beyond of what a media center should do?