Welcome to Project Kestrel v(Yellow Warbler)!
Kestrel's scene detection has been substantially improved, particularly for birds in flight. Kestrel also gets several bug fixes and UI improvements.
Key Changes
- Better Burst Grouping: Massive improvement to Kestrel's scene/burst detection methodology, especially for birds in flight. Kestrel now uses photo timestamps in addition to comparing the photos themselves to determine scenes.
- New scene editing features: Split a scene into multiple scenes, and edit the species and family tags associated with a scene for improved searchability!
- Improved Kestrel Culling Assistant: New "Reject All" and "Accept All" Buttons
- Expanded RAW Editor Support: Kestrel now lets you select out of 16 RAW editors to open photos with, and you can set your own custom executable path.
Minor Changes
- Several UI Improvements
- Kestrel will prompt you to save changes before closing or before opening the Kestrel Culling Assistant.
- Improved Settings, Live Analysis, and Scene GUI
- New feature to opt-in to additional wildlife species detection (beyond just birds)
- Kestrel will prompt you to re-analyze folders that have been analyzed with an older version of the pipeline. Use this to re-analyze scenes with birds in flight!
- Ability to clear Kestrel analysis data by right-clicking on a folder in the main view.
- Removed "Use GPU When Available" checkbox since GPU is not supported.
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 image quality classification and species classification.
Feedback? Please visit projectkestrel.org/contact or use the in-app feedback feature! I really really really need feedback! Please provide feedback. Thank you!
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