PicApport Add-on: (PAI) Automatic tagging of photos

(PAI) Automatisches Taggen von Fotos

PAI: PicApport-Artificial-Intelligence

With this add-on we would like to offer our PicApport users the possibility to categorize their own photos automatically via an integrated AI module without having to transfer them to a service provider on the Internet.

Another advantage over other AI add-ons is that the PicApport AI add-on is completely free.

Commercial AI add-ons also pursue the goal of generating as many and extensive tags as possible. But this often leads to the fact that you have a large number of tags in your images, but you are not interested in them at all.

Therefore, our approach is different. Our goal is to basically provide a reasonable selection of categories for everyday use.

As far as someone wants to add further to the metadata, the tags assigned by the AI process can also be used for further individual tagging (e.g. of people) by queries.

Or the results of the PicApport AI add-on can be supplemented, for example, with the results of the OpenStreetMap add-on, which is also already implemented and is based purely on geo-coordinates (only GPS data and no images or other metadata are transferred here). With this combination you get very comprehensive data for searching and finding images without having to upload the images to a third party service provider.

The determined category is entered directly into the photo in its own XMP namespace. It is therefore impossible for existing tags or metadata to be overwritten in the process.

Of course, the automatically determined categories can also be removed at any time.

See also:

• PicApport Add-on: OpenStreetMap Geo-Reverse-Encoder
• PicApport Add-on: TagYour.Photos (TYP) Automatic tagging of photos

pagpPicApportAITagger-x.x.x.zip (x.x.x indicates version)

IMPORTANT
Currently, the following operating system platforms on which the add-on can be installed are supported:

• Linux x86 64-bit
• Windows x86 64-bit

• pap:editmeta:photo
  Permission to edit photo metadata. (Title, description, date, etc.)
  
  
• pap:admin:addon:config
  Permission to set configuration parameters of add-ons.
  The input parameters "Tag prefix", "Path to java" , "Java options", "Automatic execution after insert new photos"
  and "Save current parameters as default" are only visible if the current user has this permission.

• Overwrite mode
  

  • Write only if empty
    Calls the web service only if no metadata has been determined for it

    
    

  • Always overwrite
    Calls the web service and overwrites any existing metadata in the XMP segment

    
    

  • no Changes (just test)
    Calls the web service without writing the metadata into the photo

    
    

  • Remove AI metadata
    Deletes the already determined data in JSON format from the XMP segment of the jpg file

    
    

  • Show AI data of photos
    Displays the data already determined in JSON format.

• Analyze result
  If set, the result of the TYP request is displayed for each photo.

If the currently logged in user has the pap:admin:addon:config permission (permission to set configuration parameters of add-ons) the following configuration parameters can optionally be set:

• Tag prefix
  The prefix $PicApportAI used by PicApport can be changed or removed here.
   

• Path to Java
  The AI engine for categorization is executed in a separate process on the server.
  For this purpose a Java VM is started. PicApport normally finds this reliably, therefore this field can be left empty.
  Please enter the path to the Java executable here only if it is required.
   

• Java options
  This option can also be left empty. It serves e.g. for the extended memory configuration of the Java VM and is normally not required.
  Possible values (example): -Xms512m -Xmx2048m
   

• Automatic execution after insert new photos
  If this option is selected, the add-on will be started automatically when new images are detected from a running PicApport server or uploaded.
  To apply the change, the option: Save current parameter values as defaults must be selected at the same time and OK must be pressed.
   

• Save current parameter values as defaults
  If this option is selected, the add-on will not be started when pressing OK, but the currently set values will be saved as default.

• XMP
  picapport:pai.picapport.de
  
  
• PicApport Addon ID
  pai.picapport.de
  
  
• Query all photos with OSM metadata:
  addon:"pai.picapport.de"