Some tools to speed up photo sorting and editing.
I like digital photography. I use Canon 550D and make pictures in RAW mode, to process photos I use Darktable and Hugin. Some time ago I realized that I more and more use my smartphone rather than my DSLR, mostly due to the fact that I need much time to process the photos sitting behind my laptop. Despite smartphone has pretty good cam, it cannot compare even with 14bit RAW photos from DSLR, so I started to think, how can I speed up my photo pipeline. To tackle with this, I decided to try to automate the process by applying my knowledge in machine learning.
This is very experimental.
To implement a tool that consumes a folder with RAW photos and does the following things:
- Predicts parameters of Darktable filters according to my style of photo editing and outputs them to Darktable .xmp files.
- Detects panos and HDRs and processes them with Hugin and default parameters.
Having such a tool, only one manual pass is needed to fix some errors and fine-tune options.
- Write code to export RAW images to format suitable to serve as imput for ML.
- Write code to export *.xmp files to format suitable to serve as target outcomes for ML.
- Evaluate prediction quality.
- Implement HDR and Pano detection.
- Evaluation detection quality.
- Wrap up everything to a tool.
- ...
- PROFIT!