Welcome to Project Kestrel v(Lincoln's Sparrow)! Kestrel receives an significantly improved quality scoring model and significant analysis customizability. Kestrel will now more accurately rank your photos by quality, particularly in photos where default lighting conditions are sub-optimal.
Key Changes
- Major update: Substantial improvements to quality estimation using a new machine learning model.
- Exposure Compensation: New exposure compensation algorithm applies exposure compensation to improve quality estimation performance in bright and dim images. New machine learning model reflects these changes in the quality determination pipeline.
- Rating Normalization: New rating normalization algorithms let you control Kestrel's auto-determined ratings. Look for these options under "Settings".
- Group Detection: Significant improvements to group detection methodology should reduce the number of false groupings.
Minor Changes
- Several bug fixes and UI improvements.
- Fixed bugs with RAW preview handling on MacOS devices being blurry.
- Fixed bugs with inconsistent application of exposure correction algorithm.
- Fixed bugs preventing the user interface from updating to reflect newly analyzed images while analysis is in progress.
- Fixed bugs in user interface related to the new split scene and scene tag modification system.
- Fixed a bug where the ETA calculation would not update when resuming analysis of a folder that has previously been started.
- Improved UI by reorganizing settings menu and providing several options to customize analysis parameters.
- Improved UI to show max star rating rather than max Quality.
- Improved UI to implement auto-save functionality by default.
- Improved UI to offer more information when a new version or update is available.
Coming Soon
- Video Tutorial is coming soon on projectkestrel.org
- Projectkestrel.org will be updated to reflect the full capabilities of Project Kestrel
- No major features are planned at this time; user feedback is requested as soon as possible.
- GPU support is on the roadmap; as are improvements to species classification.
Feedback? Please visit projectkestrel.org/contact or use the in-app feedback feature! I really need feedback! Please provide feedback. Thank you!
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