P: AI Culling

Since the rise of AI assisted tools on photo editing, I´ve been looking for a AI solution to automatically process a large amount of portrait photos by certain rules and preferences. Typical photography gig for me is a school student or some similiar studio style photoevent, which results a hundreds or thousands photos to pick the best shots and edit them with often very similar style. Some of the new Adobe´s AI tools are impressive, but as l understand (and correct me if I´m wrong), Adobe does not offer built in solution for my needs. Best applications I´ve found is Imagen AI Lightroom plug-in, which you can "teach" to edit your photos with certain style analyzing your editing data from your past catalogue.

I´m not an AI expert, but process doesn´t seem too complicated to implement as a built in feature in Lightroom. For an example, a set of action preferences could look like this after import:

1. Flag 5 to 10 images of every different person in picture set by rules: eyes open, smile, 2 to 3 different poses. Option to autoflag certain customer tags: e use qr-code shot before every customer to connect customer information to photos in post-process.

2. Crop flagged photos to certain aspect ratio, 2 to 3 full body shots, 2 to 3 headshots by certain composition reference (an reference image or automatic composition considering proportion of face of body in image aspect ratio?)

3. Implement a certain develop preset to every image, adjust exposure if lighting on face is too bright or too dark.

4. Export images with certain pixel size and resolution to a certain folder.

Something like this could revolutionize post image processing in mass photoevents, and would save thousands of work hours in a year.

Any thoughts or tips? Any on going beta-features Adobe side which I could partisipate, or will to start one?

I realize this thread has been active for a long time and many would like AI culling.

The are times that in my own work, music shows, airshows and wildlife that I come home from a shoot with thousands of images.

I know we are talking about culling, which I think for many means reviewing and selecting the bad shots (bad for whatever reason). I find it's much more efficient and effective to review all the images in Photo Mechanic and only select for further consideration the good images. If one culls based on getting rid of the bad shots, there is still the process of picking the best ones. By picking the best ones in the first pass, that cut out a time consuming job of culling/rejecting. 

After picking the best shots. I delete the ones I did not pick so the LrC importing and creating previews process is much faster on a smaller but already vetted set of images.

I'm posting this in case it can make high volume shooters process more efficient until/when AI comes along in LrC.

I would love to see an actual example of the AI you are talking about.

The more I consider the concept of AI culling, the less I like it. Say I let it cull a big music show of several thousand images. I am a perfectionist on how I like the expressions of the musicians, their position relative to the mic as well as the positions of the rest of the players and instruments when I show a group. I can't imagine that I wouldn't have to go through all the images again myself to be sure AI didn't miss anything that I consider excellent.

Adobe is an elephant, it moves at such slow pace. Adobe if you can't develop this, hire me as a product manager and I will get this done!  Fire exising laggards in the company !

Lets hope Adobe will hear us

Any update on this for automated AI culling of event photos? I shoot musicians and have a lot to cull. Thank you.

Sure.

Dozens of people, asking for just feature parity between devices/versions for 6 to 7 years, and still not having it, is "listening" but "not giving a high priority".

But hey, we have so many new features in v14, that are the result of their "listening" to the community, I should not complain. Sorry.

They DO listen to issues and ideas posted in the forum; but just because you want something doesn't mean they're going to give it high priority.

@Jill_CI'm sorry; given the number of threads open here, dating back to 2018, asking for simple features, like Denoise on iPad, I really cannot agree.

There's quite a few of them, and I'm seeing posts almost every week on them, of people asking for the same thing.

LrC is a pretty well rounded app, so there's less to add; but we didn't get much that a few AI features over the last years.

They absolutely do not listen one bit to us in this forum, except for bugs to be fair (where they are getting resolved quicker lately).