ReferenceRover is currently under active development! The most interesting features (namely, semantic search) are functional, and we are preparing for alpha testing - feel free to reach out if interested in participating.
It project is currently source-available, but not open source (though that's in the roadmap).
ReferenceRover is a tool for collecting, organizing, and viewing artistic reference materials.
Features (and planned features) include:
- Natural language / semantic search of image data.
- This is done locally via a ORT/ONNX, never touching our servers; your data and IP are yours. Index and search your local files, compatible with any machine running a DirectX compatible GPU.
- This feature is functional, with some optimization work underway (notably: quantizing and spinning down inactive ONNX runtime sessions to free up VRAM, and providing alternative execution providers to support a wider variety of machines)
- Tagging system, with suggested tags (under development)
- Tight integration with tools such as PureRef and Miro (under development)
- Tracking source information, licensing, and other metadata for images (under development)
- Privacy first design philosophy.
- User data will never be used to train generative image models.
Build your visual library and unleash your creative potential!
Use pnpm tauri dev
to build and run the program.
Note that the files in src-tauri/rover/models
and src-tauri/rover/onnx-dll
must be copied into the target/debug
and target/release
directories manually, so that they are next to the executable.
For tests and examples, they must similarly be copied into the deps/
and examples/
directories as specified by the ORT docs.
(TODO - Create a build script to handle this.)
To pass a CLI option to the rust executable, precede them with -- --
e.g. pnpm tauri dev -- -- -p
or pnpm tauri dev --release -- -- -p
. Feel free to dig into why that's necessary for Tauri.
The rover/.env
and rover/diesel.toml
files need to be updated to reflect your development environment's paths before running e.g. diesel migration run
.
TODO - Discuss how to package. Basically handled by Tauri.
Requires MSVC 2017 Build Tools to be installed, so that linking with the ONNX runtime providers (e.g. DirectML.dll) can work.
TODO
See the exporter.