scenery

a photo gallery with extended search capabilities
https://scenery.cx
Consists of scenery (photo gallery engine) and ambience (Reverse image search/similarity search engine)

How it works: how_it_works_scenery.md

#OLD: How it works: https://habr.com/ru/post/578254/ [RU]

Features

• Search by tags (supports logical expressions, https://scenery.cx/search_syntax)
• Semantic text search
• You can find images with similar tags, color pallete or visuals/semantics
  
• Reverse image search
  
• Image anti-duplication mechanism
  
• Automatic tagging and captioning
• IPFS support (using additional microservice)

Current stack:

• Node.js + TypeScript
• ambience
• Fastify
• MongoDB
• Next.js
• MUI
• sharp

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. npm install
3. npm run bootstrap
4. install ambience

Docs

npm run build -> build everything
npm run build_pages -> build next.js pages and some of backend code
npm run build_server -> build .ts files
npm run import_tags -> import tags from /import/id_tags.txt (generated by places365_tagger_web)
npm run import_captions -> import captions from /import/id_caption.txt (generated by image_caption_web)

npm run import_images -> import images
args:
--path=/path/to/image_folder -> imports images from the path, if not specified, default path - /import/images/
--use_filename_id -> parses image id from file (file name must be an unique number > 0), if not specified, uses sequential id
--bypass_ambience -> do not perform calculation of tags,captions, ambience features and duplicate check