AI photo finder
It would be great if there was a privacy friendly (read: on device) replacement for the facial recognition-based photo organization in non-privacy respecting apps.
One thing I found useful in Google Photos for instance that I've missed is the ability to see a selection of faces of people that I know and then to find pictures I've taken of them. Currently if I know the photo I'm looking for is one of my father ... I'm often out of luck trying to find it in a sea of photos.
Facial recognition technology does bother me for a number of reasons ... but the can of worms is already opened. It would be great to see this more benevolent and handy use case paired with a privacy respecting implementation.
Dark Arc
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Jack
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I know this is possible as ente.io does it, alongside scene labels (ie. mountains in the evening). I tried their product a while back and it wasn't bad at all. Probably would take a lot of work and time but would be super useful.
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Steeve P
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Would love something like this, but I would suggest: the labelling should be explicit. The user should be able to add or remove any the labels that the AI adds automatically.
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PWRUSR
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I hardly can find photos now in the photos tab, so as a workaround i save my photos in Proton drive now in a folder structure so i can find them later on. So this feature would really be great for me too.
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Spitfire
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This would be a very nice feature. I would add not only face recognition, but general object / situation awareness, to make search on par with what other services like Google Photos offer (for instance, searching "car" brings up every photo with a car in my album).
I guess it is a challenge to implement in a privacy-respecting way, as the entire library would probably have to be processed on device and then you would either have to trust Proton to store the index, or reprocess everything again in each device.
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paul.carver@protonmail.com
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Essential. Really need facial recognition or I wouldn’t be able to find anything! Got to be on device I guess, so understand it’s non-trivial. (Although I’d sacrifice e2e encryption of photos for this myself.)
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John
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Yes. Absolutely necessary.
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Amber
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I disagree with this feature. I wouldn't want to see more AI baked into my services and products. Thanks.
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peterw
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This is so important!! Ente Photos have a machine learning process running locally for this reason. I really want a similar experience with Proton. However, judging from the slow approach to linux, I don't think we will have this feature anytime soon :(
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Josh
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I would like to see an option to toggle (for privacy/security it should be off by default) that recognizes recurring people in images, and allows you to add their name to their face so that they are automatically recognized in the future. Perhaps this could use some AI model, or machine learning technique. It would be interesting to see this implemented in a secure way, say the AI model could be self hosted, or hosted on a proton server with zero-access encryption.