Feat: AI Powered Smart Albums (Automatic People, Events, Places & Object-Based Album Generation)

[Isha-upadhyay]

Describe the feature

Description:-

PictoPy already supports face detection, clustering, and AI tagging.
However, users still need to manually browse, select images, and create albums.
To significantly improve user experience and efficiency, an AI-Powered Smart Albums feature can automatically organize photos into meaningful albums similar to modern photo management apps.

This feature will use metadata, AI models, and embeddings to auto-generate albums, reducing manual work and providing a more intelligent and user-friendly photo organization experience.

Feature Summary:-
Automatically create albums based on:

1. People Albums (Face Clusters)

• Auto-generate albums for each detected person.
• Use existing face embedding clusters.

2. Places Albums (EXIF Location Metadata)

• Create albums like “Delhi Trip”, “Goa”, “Home”.
• Group photos by GPS locality → city → region.
• Fallback clustering when GPS missing (timestamp + similarity).

3. Events Albums (Time-Based Grouping)

• Automatically detect events by:
• Date & time proximity
• Burst sequences
• Multi-day trips
• Repeated patterns (birthdays, festivals)

4. Object-Based Albums (AI Tagging)
   Use lightweight models to auto-group photos into:
   Pets
   Food...etc
   (Uses existing AI tagging pipeline.)

5. Similarity-Based Albums (Embedding-Based)

• Group visually similar photos using cosine similarity.
• Useful for photographers and duplicate management.
• Optional “Best Shot” selection using blur/focus score.

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This feature is independent of the existing “Implement Albums UI (#546 ) issue and PR.
That issue covers manual album creation UI, whereas this feature proposes AI-based automatic album generation, which is a separate workflow.
The screenshot included is only to illustrate the current manual flow for context.

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[Isha-upadhyay]

@rahulharpal1603 Could you please assign this issue to me? I would like to work on it.

[Isha-upadhyay]

@rahulharpal1603 Sir please assign this issue to me .

[rahulharpal1603]

@Isha-upadhyay

We are first working on creating a normal album feature. The backend part is already completed, the UI part is being addressed in this PR: #610

Also, the face clusters albums are not necessary as they are already part of the AI-Tagging tab.