Automation of the culling process means moving in a dedicated directory all files you don’t want to process but keep them in case of.
So, for the RAW+JPEG shooter who rarely process JPEG, that’s trivial: you just have to move all JPEG files to the archiving directory and use them when needed.
But for the one who rarely process RAW, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be very helpful. Because otherwise, the culling process means decide whether “I will need the RAW or not really”.
AI can analyse each image and decide:
- Whether RAW file dynamics is needed,
- Whether noise level requires RAW file,
- If the white balance requires adjustments.
The last one looks challenging right? But if you think about it, it is not impossible at all when you know how AI works. If you train the model with dozens of thousands of images, it can learn which image is very likely to have the white balance to be adjusted and which one does not. And remember, user can always decide to supersede a decision taken by AI if it does not like it . If this is very rare, there will be real added value to automate this process.
What matters is whether the decision makes sense really most of the time to help you during the culling process.