[Feature] Memories showcase

[alexIslander]

The feature

Just like in Google Photos:

• Memories automatically creates collections of your photos and videos.
  Memories are based on factors like location, date, and people.
• Memories can be viewed in the Memories tab of the Google Photos app.
• Machine learning techniques like facial recognition, object recognition, and location detection are used to create memories.
• You can customize which photos and videos are included in memories through settings.
• Specific locations or events can be chosen to include in memories.
• Certain people or objects can be excluded from memories.

I believe immich-ml module could do it!

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[jahopki]

The ability to control which photos are included in memories would be very helpful. Perhaps if we had the ability to "hide" images or even entire days, then those hidden images would be excluded from consideration in presentation as memories...

[hischampion]

Love these videos on iCloud and Google. Cue the random Fiver licensed music.

[vide]

This Is a good feature request. Any plan to put it in the roadmap?
Creating automated videos from photos stitching together pictures on the same theme or person over a period of time is basically the only feature I miss from The app that cannot be mentioned. I'm a new Immich user and the wow-factor has been already gigantic for a self-hosted solution. This feature would be the cherry on the cake.

[petersuba]

I am trying to wean off my other half from paying for cloud storage of over 1TB of photos/videos and by now this has become her trump card over immich, having shareable short videos of memories that are automatically created based on various factors.

Making it shareable could also make it an effective marketing tool if by default we add an immich logo in the corner...

The features I am seeing in that which may be pulled together for this are:

• Memories as generated exportable/shareable short videos instead of just in-platform slideshows
• A collection of different types of transitions between assets to make it more interesting (crossfade, move over, etc etc)
• Subtle animation effects for stills when showing in memories (i.e. zoom, move left/right etc)
• Text overlays showing relevant metadata or memory grouping rules applied (i.e. together over the years, trip to XYZ etc) and positioning of this text automatically strategically (i.e. avoiding overlaying a face or relevant picture content)
• Adding mood music, preferably not completely random but matching the sentiment of the underlying memory selection (i.e. uplifting music for a trip, sentimental for memory over time etc)

In terms of memories based on factors, could be things like

• on a birthday of someone, a memory for that person, weighing heavily on birthday pictures (queue ML of candles and birthday cakes)
• Pick persons that have lots of photos over years, then pick "good" pictures of them (queue ML smile detection, sharp pictures only, prefer "favorited" etc) together over time
• On this day (that's more or less the current algorithm as far as I understand)
• Trip to X place - maybe trip to X, Y years ago today - assets from a location that is not "typical" in the library, from a period of maybe a week ahead/before this day X years ago (i.e. not just "on this day")

[MrScripter85]

+1 from me. I am currently migrating from Google to Immich and those collages as well as the "highlight videos" (the ones that are slowed down, 14 seconds long and have some music) are awesome. This would be the only reason to still keep my images with Google, but I hope that one day, Immich can do the same. I would be even happy to just have a function to create collages based on time/date/location/people.

[Wired11103]

Love this idea. Maybe we could create a name for the memories as well. E.g Roger's 7th birthday

[jagfirerwalker]

Yes that is the killer feature missing. What would be needed to make that a reality?

[luisgdev]

Is there a way to enable this feature, after it was disabled or hidden?

[kgmd111]

If I know this is not finished yet( that's why it has feature request flag )

[luisgdev]

The solution I found was to create a new Immich job for memory generation. Going to Administration/Jobs/Create new job/Memory generation.

[dvdstelt]

I don't see the job appearing however?

[dvdstelt]

Doesn't matter, it works anyway ;-)
Too bad no daily notification on my phone. Other than that, nice feature!

[skatsubo]

Re: missing memories.
If the memories feature is enabled, but memories not showing up, you may have encountered a bug.

See #16484 (comment) for proposed resolution.

At first, you may try only the job part:

run the memories generation jobs

If that does not help, then do what's described in the linked comment, starting with:

run the following command to clean the state of the memories generation

and then re-run the job.

[Guoyuer]

Generating a short video like apple photos from selected pictures/videos would be a very nice feature!

[1661410107114145152525]

Oh I thought this is already included. This feature is so important for everyone with more than just a few hundreds of photos as otherwise there will be many you will never see again...

[luna1611]

I agree.
The ONLY reason that I still keep google photos, while I copied all my photos to immich, is the generation of such memories (collage, video, pseudo-3D picture, and many possibilities considering the current progresses in AI-assisted image control).

[luna1611]

In addition, it would be great if we can "request" such images to our own immich server whenever we want.

In google photo, as far as I understand, we CAN make album and some collage whenever we want,
but we CANNOT make more interesting product.
We have nothing but to wait for google photo's random product.

Since immich runs in a personal server, it would be great if we can request such product any time.

Anyway, thanks the development team for their wonderful work!