• Self hosted wannabe Google Photos clone, with a slight focus on cool graphs
• Django backend & React frontend.
• In development.

Currently the project is in very early stages (e.g. default username/password, server hostname/ip for backend is baked into the frontend code), so run it only for the sake of checking it out.

• Label some faces manualy, and train a face classifier to label the rest.
• View photos by people in them.
• Automatically generate "event" albums with nice titles, like "Thursday in Berlin"
• See photos on the map
• Backend caching
• Favorite event (auto generated) albums
• View photos grouped by date
• Optimized frontend (Infinite scrolling/dynamic loading)
• Detect objects in photos, and make them searchable by objects
• Search photos by the location
• Authentication

• Short term:

  • Create custom albums

• Longer term, i.e. haven't thought much about them

  • Share photos/albums
  • Basic photo editing, like rotation
  • Tag undetected face
  • Add cool graphs

• Finally:

  • dockerize

• Face detection: face_recognition
• Face classification/clusterization: scikit-learn
• Object detection: densecap

Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and macOS Sierra.

Make sure you have Python version >= 3.5.

Install Boost.

For Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

For macOS

brew install boost-python --with-python3 --without-python

Create and activate a python virtual environment

sudo apt install python-pip
pip install virtualenv
cd && mkdir venvs
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 ~/venvs/ownphotos 
source ~/venvs/ownphotos/bin/activate

Install dlib and its Python binding (make sure you're within the above virtual environment)

git clone https://github.com/davisking/dlib.git
cd dlib
mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -DDLIB_USE_CUDA=0 -DUSE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS=1;
cmake --build .
cd ..
python3 setup.py install --yes USE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS --no DLIB_USE_CUDA

Clone the repo and install requirements

cd
git clone https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos-backend.git
cd ownphotos-backend
pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup PostgreSQL database:

Just use docker

docker run --name ownphotos-db -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=q1W@e3R$ -e POSTGRES_DB=ownphotos -d postgres

Check the ip of the postgresql docker container by

docker inspect ownphotos-db | grep IPAddress

Should be something like 172.17.0.#. Open ownphotos/settings.py and change the db host to that ip in the DATABASE dictionary. Should be around line 100 or so.

Setup memcached:

Also just use docker

sudo docker run --name ownphotos-memcached -d memcached

Check the ip of the memcached docker container by

docker inspect ownphotos-memcached | grep IPAddress

Again, should be something like 172.17.0.#. Open ownphotos/settings.py and change the hostname in the CACHES dictionary. Should be around line 120 or so.

Create db and add admin user with username admin and password q1W@e3R$

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb
python manage.py createsuperuser # will prompt for username and password. use admin/password

Edit config.py file to add directories where your photos live (ignores subfolders).

(Optional) Install & run densecap

Follow the instructions here. You can use CUDA if you want, which will speed up caption generation considerably. On CPU (i7-4765T), generating captions for one photo takes ~10 seconds. On a GPU (gtx970), it takes ~4 seconds per each photo.

Densecap itself is written in torch, and the script densecap/webcam/daemon.th will start the daemon. The script watches a directory for image files in densecap/webcam/input, and it will drop a json file containing the captions for image files in the said photos into densecap/webcam/output. There's a flask server that deals with communicating with the django backend for receiving base64 encoded image files, and drops it into the densecap/webcam/input folder, and returns the captions back to the django backend. It's kind of a convoluted way to do it, but works for now. To run it,

cd densecap/
th webcam/daemon.lua & python webcam/server.py

The flask server will listen on port 5000. The only request you can make is POST to / with the request body consisting of base64 encoded image file.

Start the server process (make sure it's running on port 8000, or go through the entire front end code to replace occurances of localhost:8000 with the appropriate hostname:port)

python manage.py runserver

Install node and npm. For development I am using node v6.11.0 and npm v5.1.0.

Clone the repo, cd into it and start server

cd && git clone https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos-frontend.git
cd ownphotos-frontend
npm install
npm start

A browser window should open, where you can mess around!