Changelog

// Highlights
+ Upgraded Media Insight to .NET 10, improving compatibility with the latest Microsoft runtime
  and preparing the application for future platform updates
+ Fixed a large number of bugs across indexing, browsing, filtering, selection,
  database handling, and user interface workflows
+ Optimized many internal features to improve responsiveness, stability,
  and overall performance during large media analysis
+ Improved general reliability across the application, especially when working
  with large datasets and long analysis sessions

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+ Added support for storing project data in a network-hosted MySQL database,
  enabling multiple team members to collaborate on the same workspace and
  categorize images and videos together
+ This new collaborative workflow makes it easier for investigative or review teams
  to work simultaneously on shared datasets from different workstations
+ Applied a broad performance and UI optimization pass, reducing unnecessary
  interface overhead and improving overall responsiveness during daily use

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+ Added automatic visual duplicate detection and selection,
  allowing you to find visually similar duplicates in addition to the
  existing hash-based duplicate detection
+ Added a new setting to move the cache and the database
  to a custom folder instead of using the default data location

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+ Added new basic filters in Query Builder, including:
  • Image Width
  • Image Height
  • Camera Model
  • Known Material (list box)
  • Has GPS
+ These filters make it easier to build more precise and structured search conditions
+ For selected images containing GPS metadata, it is now possible to export a KML file compatible with Google Earth

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+ Added support in Query Builder for filtering by GPS and Camera Model
+ These new filters can also be combined with existing conditions to build more precise search queries
+ Improved overall UI behavior and applied general interface refinements for a smoother experience

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+ Added optional LM Studio Vision AI integration for local image analysis during indexing
+ Prompt-driven auto-grouping: images identified by the model (YES/NO response) are automatically added to the collection you choose
+ Non-invasive classification: does not change default logic or core categories; it only assigns a collection
+ Configurable settings: base URL, timeout, prompt rule, and collection name can be customized
+ Immediate UI feedback: collection membership can appear during indexing and is persisted after batch save
+ Local-first: analysis runs against your local LM Studio server (OpenAI-compatible API)

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+ Performed a major database restructuring to support indexing and browsing
  of millions of images with significantly faster responsiveness
+ Items inside Collection/Label → Selected are now treated as a dedicated
  working subset, enabling simpler, faster operations on large datasets
+ General bug fixes and improved overall stability across all modules

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+ Added Back and Forward buttons to quickly return to any previously applied
  filter or search state, improving navigation speed across investigative workflows
+ Fixed several generic bugs and stability issues to improve overall reliability

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+ Added Query Builder: build complex queries through a simple and structured UI,
  combining multiple filters and conditions without manually writing expressions
+ Introduced External Image Comparison: load images outside the indexed gallery and
  compare them against the collection using visual similarity and face similarity
+ Designed for investigative workflows and cross-source verification, enabling quick
  matching of external reference images against large galleries

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+ Added Conditional Similarity Filters: refine similarity search by excluding or prioritizing
  specific subsets of images, enabling highly targeted investigative workflows
+ Introduced "Filter by already reviewed images/videos" — quickly isolate items that have
  been previously examined, allowing analysts to focus on remaining content
+ Implemented persistent navigation indexes in the database:
  these new incremental browse indexes allow instant gallery navigation even
  with millions of images and videos, dramatically improving responsiveness
+ Optimized incremental index updates during category, label, and similarity operations
  to maintain real-time performance without rebuilding full indexes
  

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+ Added Semantic Search: find photos by typing natural-language descriptions,
  enabling instant retrieval of images based on scene content and context
+ Fixed a selection bug affecting multi-item and cross-page selections, now
  fully stable even with large datasets
+ Significantly improved loading speed for videos, the Map widget, and the
  Calendar widget, ensuring smoother navigation and faster workflow

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+ Added integrated video preview inside the Image / Video Analysis workspace
  (supports playback, frame scrubbing and automatic detection of video sources)
+ Introduced a full video header viewer with structured technical metadata
  (codec details, streams, container info, color profiles, chapters, etc.)
+ Dedicated video metadata extraction pipeline using ffprobe, displayed using
  a new clean card-based UI consistent with image htmldump views
+ Improved automatic detection of extracted frames, now correctly mapped
  back to their original source video during analysis
+ Added per-file MD5 hashing support with new utility functions for checksum
  generation and verification
+ Updated database schema to persist MD5 values for every media item
  (images and videos), and extended search and filtering with MD5 fields

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+ Fixed issues when loading an external or relocated database — Media Insight now detects and connects to it reliably
+ Separated image and video analysis pipelines: users can now enable or disable their indexing independently
+ This separation improves flexibility and allows faster analysis when focusing on a single media type

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+ Optimized the global selection operation to handle extremely large volumes of files with greater stability and responsiveness
+ Added a quick single-page selection feature, allowing users to instantly select or deselect all items on the current gallery page with one click
+ Both improvements significantly enhance usability when managing thousands of media entries

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+ Added the ability to drag and drop files onto the main window to quickly analyze only the selected items
+ Supports both images and videos, reusing the existing pipeline (thumbnails, indexing, DB, FAISS) without scanning entire folders

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+ Improved Google authentication method, allowing login not only on the current device 
  but also from another device (e.g., a phone)
+ This update overcomes security protection issues that could otherwise prevent the 
  browser from opening during authentication

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+ Introduced an interactive Calendar Widget to visually filter images 
  and videos by shooting date or time range
+ Added a Map Widget for intuitive geographic filtering — select 
  regions or points on the map to instantly narrow down media by location
+ Both widgets integrate seamlessly with existing filters and indexing logic
+ Designed to provide investigators and analysts with faster, more natural 
  ways to explore large datasets by date and place

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+ Added a dedicated OCR control inside the Image Analysis workspace
+ Instantly extract and display text content from images
+ Supports copy-to-clipboard for fast reuse in reports or external tools
+ Designed for forensic and investigative workflows where text recognition 
  is critical

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+ Press F6 to instantly launch a full-screen preview of all photos 
  and videos in the current gallery page — a seamless way to immerse yourself 
  in the content without distractions
+ Press F7 to project the same immersive preview directly onto 
  another monitor, perfect for presentations or side-by-side analysis
+ Designed for speed and clarity: no menus, no clicks, just one key for a 
  cinematic viewing experience

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+ Optimized file enumeration on large disks for faster indexing
+ Improved tooltips for icons with clearer and more consistent wording
+ Index status counters aligned with the actual indexing progress

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+ Added PRNU Fingerprint analysis for camera attribution
+ Ability to compute device fingerprints from image sets
+ Export to .fprnu files: portable device fingerprints that can be reused 
  across different projects and sessions
+ Fingerprints can be imported anytime to perform image-to-camera comparisons
+ Designed to strengthen forensic workflows where camera source validation is required

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+ Fixed handling of the "Known" category to ensure correct classification
+ Added global selection status for easier overview and management
+ Improved user interface consistency and visuals
+ Various minor bug fixes and optimizations

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+ Made the top logo clickable to instantly clear all active filters 
  and return to the full gallery view — dramatically speeding up navigation
+ Improved database engine behavior under heavy batch operations, ensuring 
  smoother performance and more reliable handling when working with large 
  sets of images

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+ Added support for Collections: create, organize, and filter groups of images 
  for investigative or personal use
+ Added support for Labels: assign multiple tags per image for fast search and 
  flexible classification
+ Both features integrate with existing filters, making it easier to organize, 
  browse, and report on large photo archives

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+ Added new tampering analysis tools:
   • Double JPEG & Grid
   • JPEG Ghost Detection
   • Quantization & Huffman Check
+ Added new detection modules:
   • Social Media Detection
   • DeepFake Check
   • AI-Generated Check
+ Various bug fixes and stability improvements

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+ Added "Image Analysis" workspace with the following tools:

  ▸ Overview
  ▸ Image View

  ▸ Metadata
    - File Header: raw header/EXIF hex view with parsed tag annotations
    - Metadata Details: structured table (Group / Description / Value)
    - Thumbnail Check: extracted thumbnail preview + Difference Map, size/status readout, Reload

  ▸ Tampering
    - Error Level Map (ELA): Compression Quality, Detail Level, Highlight Strength; Linear Mode / B&W View; Default reset; runtime/status
    - Contrast Adjustment: Analysis Method (e.g., Channel Consistency), Patch Size selector, Run Analysis, heatmap output
    - Clone Detection: Detection Method (e.g., BRISK); Sensitivity, Similarity Threshold, Minimum Distance, Grouping Level; Hide Connections / Show Markers; Load Mask; On/Off; Process
    - Filter Detection: Minimum Texture, Detection Threshold; Show Probability Map; Remove Speckles; Run Analysis
    - Resampling Check: Filter Size; Upsample Image; Remove Image Wrap; Use Center Only; Apply Hanning Window; High-pass Filter 1/2; Gamma Correction; Rescale Spectrum; Run Probability/Fourier Analysis; progress bar; spectrum/probability outputs

+ UI/UX: refreshed visuals, improved spacing and typography, clearer controls and tooltips, streamlined layouts
+ Usability: smoother navigation, consistent focus/selection behaviors, inline status messages and progress feedback

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+ Added three new right-click menu filters:
   • Video frames
   • Camera model
   • Date taken
+ Optimized application to also run in fully portable mode (no install required)
+ Fixed issues with category change not updating consistently
+ Fixed progressive numbering bugs during analysis and export

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+ Dramatically reduced memory usage: analysis scales to practically unlimited files with a steady RAM footprint
+ Video frame extraction moved entirely to the cache — the analysis disk is never modified
+ Report generation optimized: faster builds and smaller output; identical content is deduplicated in exports while all occurrences (paths) remain visible in the HTML report

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+ Refined card graphics and animations for a smoother, more polished appearance
+ Completely restyled tooltips with improved readability and structured EXIF display
+ Added one-click action to copy all EXIF data directly to clipboard from the tooltip
+ Minor layout adjustments for better consistency across icon and text elements

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+ Added inline video preview on thumbnail hover for quick content inspection without opening the file
+ Stop Analysis now works immediately even during active video splitting, with progress bar reset and collapse
+ Minor stability improvements and UI responsiveness tweaks during long operations

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+ Fixed thumbnail orientation: images now always appear correctly rotated/flipped based on EXIF data, even with disk cache enabled
+ Improved fallback loading to also preserve correct orientation when cache is missing or invalid
+ Minor optimizations in thumbnail generation and concurrency handling
+ Small UI cleanup for consistency

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+ Increased max icons per row from 7 to 8 (configurable)
+ Icon size reduced from 20×20 to 18×18 for better fit
+ Improved icon wrapping: supports 2-line layout with proper vertical alignment
+ Card height set to 280px for consistent layout across portrait/landscape images
+ Filename area fixed to exactly 2 lines, clipped overflow to prevent spillover
+ Number overlay now always aligned top-right, even with 2 lines of icons
+ Removed thumbnail tooltip for cleaner UI

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+ Added camera icon to filter all photos taken with the same device (Model preferred, fallback to Software)
+ Added calendar icon to filter all photos taken on the same shooting date (matches by day)
+ Actions lock until analysis/loading is complete, consistent with other GPS/similarity features
+ EXIF parsing refined for lowercase/underscore key matching in exif_full_text
+ Minor UI improvements to icon layout and tooltips

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+ Added "Find nearby images" GPS icon to sort by distance from a selected image
+ Improved EXIF parser to correctly extract gps_info and other multi-word fields
+ GPS-near icon now active only after loading from database, with action locking during analysis/loading
+ New option to fully clear thumbnail cache when deleting index

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+ Improved visuals and aesthetics across the app (+polished panels, spacing, typography)
+ Unified color palette and button styles for consistency
+ Subtle hover & focus states to improve accessibility
+ Refined About dialog and footer layout with Privacy link

// Core features
+ Image gallery indexing and search
+ Filters, pagination, and drag-selection
+ Progressive saves and async operations
+ Local database (MySQL/SQLite bridge) for projects
+ FAISS-based similarity search integration
+ WPF rich UI with multi-threading support