Happy thoughts. :D

Note that face detection alone doesn't work well for all images, so we should also have a way for images to override the focal point for cropping purposes. This could be implemented as parser functions that save page properties (thus giving them standard editing/versioning/audit trail) and give them a nice user-friendly UI for seeing/overriding the crop points.

-- brion

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg@wikimedia.org> wrote:

This was going to be my question during the dev summit: why *don't* we do this, and improve our detection over time (and retroactively) instead of relying on user's devices?

Which is a long way of saying: +1 :)

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On Feb 3, 2015 12:10 PM, "Max Semenik" <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Problem: while apps have face detection available from iOS and Android for use in lead image positioning/cropping, mobile web doesn't have it, and even for apps detection is quite slow, resulting in battery drain and UX-problematic slowdown, especially on low-end Android devices.

With Dmitry's help, I discovered Android's face detection library sources ([1], separated out to a standalone library at [2]). This means that we can build a face detection service and supply its results to all users, be that apps, web or third parties.

Thoughts?

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[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/neven/+/master

[2] https://github.com/lqs/neven

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