Automatic tagging with locally running LLM like Ollama

[AxelG-DE]

Describe the solution you'd like

Usually I use tagging very rarely. Mostly only for panoramas and Timelapses.

However sometimes it would be very handy to find pictures quick.

There is LR-Genius and they work also with Ollama as LLM, which can run locally and use this to generate tags and picture descriptions

Such an local-AI-based auto-tagging tool could be nice for dt as well.

Alternatives

I have heard on IRC, that there was something called photilis. I never came across this and donno whether reactivating and binding to AI would be a thing

Additional context

[wpferguson]

there was something called photilis.

There is a lua-script, contrib/photils, https://docs.darktable.org/lua/stable/lua.scripts.manual/scripts/contrib/photils/

[AxelG-DE]

So if this is still a thing, than it is "just" a matter of getting photils connected to ollama?

I opened an issue there, would be nice if somebody second that.

[pehar1]

After a few attempts of my own, I am not convinced of the quality of automatic tagging using LLM. Recognizing and removing nonsensical tags requires some time and effort. I could not recognize any real advantage over manual tagging.

[AxelG-DE]

pity I see it oposite. Manually tagging I simply do not do at all. A superfluous tag on the other hand would not be such a big deal

[pehar1]

A superfluous tag on the other hand would not be such a big deal

For me, they definitely are. And what about hierarchical tags ? I use them exclusively, but despite an intensive search on the net, I have not yet found any indication that an LLM would be able to generate them.

[AxelG-DE]

Allegedly LR-genius can detect the location from within the pictures. Indeed that won't work all the time but with characteristic city views.... That would be something nice. Up to now I could not achieve such with photils (but have only played a few minutes, yet)

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[Donatzsky]

Here's another Lua AI integration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGFSdvZCsN0

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