Even pets do not recognize faces.... that is why they sniff each others... well you know...
Pets (cats and dogs) DO have facial recognitive capacity.
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Early iLife '09 Notes and Impressions
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Pets (cats and dogs) DO have facial recognitive capacity.
No, the iLife '09 you buy now will work with Snow Leopard when it comes out. There will be no need to buy another copy when Snow Leopard comes out.
It won't recognize my pet python, two hamsters or my chimpanzee either...WTF Apple?
...and which genus of canine or feline do you think your pets would fit into?
Mines Coming Tomorrow
I'm so excited for mine to arrive lol, it should be here tomorrow or Saturday
I'm so excited for mine to arrive lol, it should be here tomorrow or Saturday
iMovie is definitely broken. Mine can not sync audio at all, on previously imported events. It loses audio completely after a few seconds. I think the track is still there, it just doesn't play in the browser.
That's not accurate. I only heard of one trojan in a torrent of iWork 09. If there is a trojan in any of the iLife 09 torrents, then it would be easy to find within the installation packages, but what does it matter anyway? It's illegal.
well i just "obtained" iLife. the facial recognition seems a bit prematurely released because it doesnt work very well yet. whats the point of it if you have to tag the person in every photo theyre in? i thought the point was to identify the face once and have iphoto find that face in all the other pics that person is in. it kind of does that, but it should improve with software updates...
Facial recognition works well when photos meet certain standards that normalise the face pose and expression. Check out passport application forms online which meet the ICAO standards for an idea of what FR systems like to use. Your talking something like 40-120 pixels between the eye centres on a near perfectly lit and front on image of a person with no expression, thin framed untinted glasses at worse, pupils visible and no hair on face or ears. I am pretty sure most of our photo libraries have only about 5% or less images that meet that.
This is another reason why I'm glad i swapped my "old" white book for the new enhanced one... I didn't even realize it at first, but after seeing this thread, i checked out the version i have and it's the 09 one! Very pleased with that! My other one, that was ordered less than 2 weeks before this one only shipped with 08.
Haven't got many photo's on my Mac yet to see about the face recognition, but the new garage band seems a lot better! A feature i like is the one to record guitar, and you can change the amps and effects within garage band.. this is good, means i don't have to run Line 6 Gearbox in the background. Haven't had chance to test it out yet, but i will once my Guitarport is installed on this machine! I'm sure the amp models will sound pretty good though, i hope!
Haven't got many photo's on my Mac yet to see about the face recognition, but the new garage band seems a lot better! A feature i like is the one to record guitar, and you can change the amps and effects within garage band.. this is good, means i don't have to run Line 6 Gearbox in the background. Haven't had chance to test it out yet, but i will once my Guitarport is installed on this machine! I'm sure the amp models will sound pretty good though, i hope!
Thanks for this iMat77. Sounds like a fairly minor update as some of the features you mention were already present in iWeb '08 (e.g. photo gallery widgets - I think the only new thing is that they are now resizable).
Pity. These seem like relatively easy features to add, and are standard on just about every other blogging platform. An iPhone app for adding or editing blog entries would also have been nice, although no doubt trickier to implement...
I sometimes wonder how serious Apple is about pushing iWeb, which seems more geared towards sharing the odd picture or movie than true web site creation or regular blogging. It always seems to be the ugly duckling of the iLife package, especially now that some of these features have been subsumed into MobileMe (although in iLife '09, perhaps iDVD now has a better claim to that title!).
Pity. These seem like relatively easy features to add, and are standard on just about every other blogging platform. An iPhone app for adding or editing blog entries would also have been nice, although no doubt trickier to implement...
I sometimes wonder how serious Apple is about pushing iWeb, which seems more geared towards sharing the odd picture or movie than true web site creation or regular blogging. It always seems to be the ugly duckling of the iLife package, especially now that some of these features have been subsumed into MobileMe (although in iLife '09, perhaps iDVD now has a better claim to that title!).
Faces Kicks Ass .... Not!
So.. I've not tagged myself exactly on 331 photos. Faces still doesn't suggest me on any pictures. Instead, it might suggest some other person from my tag list on my face.
In reality you'll have to go through all your photos to make sure Faces works ok. It really seems like this is just a technology being tested, but which is certainly not yet developed enough to be actually used.
I'm also finding the Places feature a little bit hard to use, unless the gps data is already there. If you want to be any more precise than just the city (and even that might not work), you'll be in a big trouble (unless you only have a few places to be tagged)..
So.. I've not tagged myself exactly on 331 photos. Faces still doesn't suggest me on any pictures. Instead, it might suggest some other person from my tag list on my face.
In reality you'll have to go through all your photos to make sure Faces works ok. It really seems like this is just a technology being tested, but which is certainly not yet developed enough to be actually used.
I'm also finding the Places feature a little bit hard to use, unless the gps data is already there. If you want to be any more precise than just the city (and even that might not work), you'll be in a big trouble (unless you only have a few places to be tagged)..
Don't bother.
On initial scan, it didn't recognize A SINGLE FACE. Tagging a face does not result in iPhoto spotting any further instances of the same person. It didn't even recognize the same face in multiple versions of the SAME DAMN PICTURE.
Further, when I tried to add a missing face, in one instance, the selector frame jumped to a wheel of a truck instead of the face, and in another, it centered on the person's, uh, upper chest area.
I think we should create a website with all funny iPhoto 09 moments
I do have much better ones, but I'll sure as hell ain't gonna share /those/.
Intersting: I just had a picture in iPhoto where it recogized a guy as say "Mr X", and on the same picture, the other face was labeled "is this Mr X?"
There's some missing logic in the algorithm. There shall not be two same persons in one picture. Even twins have different names. Speaking of... can iTunes tell the difference between twins after lots of training?
EDIT: Nevermind, I just found a picture of myself holding up my badge (with my photo on it), so my argument is moot.
There's some missing logic in the algorithm. There shall not be two same persons in one picture. Even twins have different names. Speaking of... can iTunes tell the difference between twins after lots of training?
EDIT: Nevermind, I just found a picture of myself holding up my badge (with my photo on it), so my argument is moot.
Bleh....
I was excited about iMovie, hoping it will finally get an automatic movie-creation Wizard, like much of the cheap Windoze competition.
But, unfortunately, I can't dump Cyberlink's Power Director yet - the new iMovie still doesn't have a Wizard.
I have found these automatic movie-creation wizards to really save time on home videos - you just dump your clips, and the wizard automatically cuts them to the total movie time you've defined, adds the music you want, plus transitions, etc., spitting a surprisingly good timeline on the other end. Then I just edit it a bit and voila, the movie is done.
For a supposedly easy/simple consumer product, Apple really dropped the ball by not including a wizard. Bummer.
I was excited about iMovie, hoping it will finally get an automatic movie-creation Wizard, like much of the cheap Windoze competition.
But, unfortunately, I can't dump Cyberlink's Power Director yet - the new iMovie still doesn't have a Wizard.
I have found these automatic movie-creation wizards to really save time on home videos - you just dump your clips, and the wizard automatically cuts them to the total movie time you've defined, adds the music you want, plus transitions, etc., spitting a surprisingly good timeline on the other end. Then I just edit it a bit and voila, the movie is done.
For a supposedly easy/simple consumer product, Apple really dropped the ball by not including a wizard. Bummer.
The same person can be in the same picture. Mirrors and photographs can duplicate a person. And there is always Photoshop.
Themes seem to do part of what you are looking for (title, transitions, credits). iMovie HD ('06) had a feature called Magic Movie. Maybe it will make a return next year.
Right, I forgot about the mirrors. I usually avoid those and windows when taking pictures. But I just found a picture of myself twice on the same picture (see a few posts above).
EDIT: iPhoto found a face where I wouldn't have:
I forsee flickr groups with photographs of clouds, bushes, potatoes, random patterns where iPhoto detects faces. Might get interesting and fun.