(Early Access) Assisted Culling (LrClassic)

After a number of somewhat successful  “cycles” with asst culling, it now shows the number of stacks and unstack photos that will be displayed using visual similarity but after executing it does not display any stacks. I have not tried shutting it off and restarting - that will be next step.

I’m using Release 15.3 on Mac.

Below is picture folder contents with 8 photos. Two are very similar professional portrait copies.  Three appear to be the same photo with different names.  

After Asst culling selected with tightest visual similarity, 

 message is

Results of culling DO NOT DISPLAY A NUMBER ANYWHERE

If I didn’t know that the photo with van with adult&child standing beside it, I would not know where to look and decide which photos to purge.  This worked yesterday!

Very slow, both to perform the culling filter and then especially to cycle through the images afterwards to confirm you’re happy with the choices.

If you have thousands of photos and are happy to trust the AI then I’m sure it’s quicker, but if you want to retain any element of manual control then it’s probably not worthwhile.

very slow and inaccurate

It is very slow. It seems to stop altogether after analyzing less than 1000, yet it holds onto memory and seems to slow Lightroom Classic unless you pause it.  I have tried to use it for several weeks and it just stops. I have over 16,000 photos cataloged, it gets to 771 and stops. I am trying to find out of focus. I set focus score to 80. It says only 64 are out of focus (I guess that is good except I doubt it is accurate based on my eyeballing the photos it culls). But out of 64, it shows a rejection count of only 2 unless that is the count of images that have the rejection flag turned on. That does not make sense to me.  I have tried accessing help. If this is going to work it needs to be able to be able to restart where it left off and move faster. I have 32 gb memory of my dedicated Windows PC. Task Manager shows my system is loafing with less than 10% to 15% cpu utilization and about 50% memory utilization.  Again, this PC is dedicated to photos and Adobe. No other apps running. 

Is there a way to turn it off: it always causes my LrC to crash out. I have c. 80,000 photos and don’t need this to happen every single time I use LrC.

When you support bird photography better, I would like an option to reject photos where the subject (the bird) isn’t completely in the frame. If a wing or feet are clipped, reject it.

Cool. But can you add a feature for styles or like for example I do fashion shots and it would be great to have it select best poses. Or custom train model so the user can train it to their workflow or style. Some times it work but some times I did my shots so well that it don't do anything like just one picture was rejected. And the settings for sharpness its too extreme needs an in between  (light medium hard).  Other thing that would be great is the repetitive cropping specially for dynamic shots. Make he ai detect where the subject is then evaluate and leave margins as the user specified use golden ratio and finish the batch. 

Currently running a test on a group of 41k portraits.  Seems to be working slowly but working, one item I have noticed is that the system is choosing sun glasses as in focus eyes.  It would be ideal if the system would be able to select out sunglasses vs in focus eyes.  Running on MacBook Air M2 24Gb Ram

Hopefully we can use this for animals (birds would be great). 

I appreciate the tool and love what it can do for me for bigger shoots and extensive catalogs. The slider improvements help, and I think Adobe can make it better by adding a couple of new features that the competitors include, ie keyword search features and adaptations that remind me of Adobe Bridge’s categorization features. Still working through it all, will report back.