Splitting synths logically when not 100% synthy to begin with.
Although I imagine many plans are in the works for the type of preview/editing/adding and resynthing features described throughout, I have a couple thoughts that might be easier/quicker stop-gaps to get started:
1) Once I create a synth, let me delete any of the images not associated with the primary synth: this would allow me to very quickly increase my synthy % to 100 without doing any additional work (assuming I am willing to accept the fact that of those stragglers didn't make it in). While in development, I imagine that the team actually needs to take a look at what was and what was not synthed in a group, because that is how the algorithms are improved or analyzed, but it still would be great if I could get rid of them if they don't make it in the group. ( I know the "delete a photo" post has already been made, but here the goal would be to delete all the photos not in the primary synth...a subtle difference, I guess, but...)
2) If it happens that I make a synth that has 2 distinct groups (e.g. I made one walking between two rooms and hoped it would synth the 2 rooms together, but they ended up as 2 separate good synths in the same group which was only considered 39% synthy), let me split the synth at its obvious group boundaries into 2 separate synths and just apply a new name to the
3) In the meantime, let me export a filename list of the photos and the "groups" they are a part of in the synth. This would at least allow me to manually build a folder with the appropriate files (i.e. the ones that would synth with 100% accuracy) and eliminate the others before I re-upload. Although this is possible to do visually, it is extremely hard, especially when you are trying to exclude 50 out of 300 files that all look very similar. This could be an "export synth report" type feature, or it could even get written as an additional log file (or part of the current log file) for each synth as soon as it is completed.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have on this. Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't, as others have, compliment the team on such a wonderful new piece of software.
1) Once I create a synth, let me delete any of the images not associated with the primary synth: this would allow me to very quickly increase my synthy % to 100 without doing any additional work (assuming I am willing to accept the fact that of those stragglers didn't make it in). While in development, I imagine that the team actually needs to take a look at what was and what was not synthed in a group, because that is how the algorithms are improved or analyzed, but it still would be great if I could get rid of them if they don't make it in the group. ( I know the "delete a photo" post has already been made, but here the goal would be to delete all the photos not in the primary synth...a subtle difference, I guess, but...)
2) If it happens that I make a synth that has 2 distinct groups (e.g. I made one walking between two rooms and hoped it would synth the 2 rooms together, but they ended up as 2 separate good synths in the same group which was only considered 39% synthy), let me split the synth at its obvious group boundaries into 2 separate synths and just apply a new name to the
3) In the meantime, let me export a filename list of the photos and the "groups" they are a part of in the synth. This would at least allow me to manually build a folder with the appropriate files (i.e. the ones that would synth with 100% accuracy) and eliminate the others before I re-upload. Although this is possible to do visually, it is extremely hard, especially when you are trying to exclude 50 out of 300 files that all look very similar. This could be an "export synth report" type feature, or it could even get written as an additional log file (or part of the current log file) for each synth as soon as it is completed.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have on this. Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't, as others have, compliment the team on such a wonderful new piece of software.
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Inappropriate?I really like "100%"!
It is annoying when only one single photo is failed to synth.
But actually, it should be related to the edit function of a synth.
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Inappropriate?Thanks, Gabriel. Your idea of "deleteing" non-synthed photos and "spliting" different groups of photos are great. In fact, we already think about different possibilities for users to preview and organize their synths. Let's see what will happen next. :-)
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this is one of the best points
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Inappropriate?Along similar lines to improve the sythisity (if we're going to be getting picky about language I may as well make up words :-) of an upload attempt, some way of telling the program to ignore a certain area/feature on a picture might be handy. EG for multiple shots taken out of a car/bus/plane/train window that may have stickers on it, pictures taken on a rainy day so water drops get on the lens ---- or in my particular case, an attempt to synth an object shown on TV with a camera walk-around but has both a couple of prominent "screen bugs", and for half of it a disruptive set of scrolling credits covering ~1/3rd of the scene. I'd hoped both of which would lose out to the greater picture area covered by the thing I actually wanted to synth, but for some reason PS was confused and decided to ignore the rest of the picture, just locking on to these static/slow moving and unimportant features... which doesn't bode well for the other, more likely situations. (So views of said object that were almost 180 degrees opposed with a distinctly heterogenous studio background behind it were still considered as only being a short distance apart, in the straight vertical plane (though it was a near-constant altitude horizontally panning walk-round), so you had to click up/down to move around it, and the point cloud was just a useless set of rough word-outlines).
I’m accepting that what I did was apt to confuse it anyway, but it would be nice to be able to say "this stuff is unimportant / stuck in front of the camera, ignore it" so the actual content in the "background" receives the attention and the thing synths prop
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this is one of the best points
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Tahrey, you might be interested in this post. -
Yes - something like that :)
I tried it again after running each offending pic thru my photo editor and blurring the overlays (thank goodness for having a tablet pc and an editor with a blur-pen tool :-D) and re-synthed it, and it's worked somewhat better, although not fantastic; it hasn't locked on to these items any more, but there seems to also be a lack of synthable information in the actual images, so that couldn't have helped.
Still I can't see the use of built in tools taking any longer or having any greater detrimental effect on the image (as I had to re-save the jpgs...) than what I did there! -
I agree with your idea. Is there any way to tell photo synth what I want to be the focus of the synthed photos? -
Inappropriate?I love the idea alot and i wish i would have thought of it! but i need some help with stuff please ask n-e-1 u know 2 help me with my page. ^_^ thanks
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i'm not normally a language nazi, but is "n-e-1" really faster for you to type than "anyone"? there's one more character but the keys are all closer together...
More seriously, - what "page" are you referring to, what's the trouble you're having, and how are we to find it to get anyone we know to help you with it?
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