[digiKam-users] digikam 7.0 beta face recognition questions

Hello,

 

I really like the new face recognition engine, it works much better and faster. Still, I have some questions about which I could not find any answer in the documentation:

 

1) Right now I have about 900 faces in the "unknown" section. I select and tag a couple of them with people I know and then run the "recognize faces" operation, right? It will then try and recognize the faces according to the ones I already have in my database, right? Now the problem is, that it doesn't really do that very well... I have about 300 images with faces of my wife, but they don't get recognized as my wife. Same with me, our children, grandchildren, friends etc. I have to tag again and again and rerun the recognition process. Or am I doing something wrong?

 

2) what do I do with the hundreds of faces of people I don't know and don't care about? Delete them as not being faces, or leave them in the "unknown" section?

 

Thanks a lot for any help with these!

 

Cheers, Martin

[Maik Qualmann]

1) In principle correct. You can decrease the Face Accuracy setting (50-60) so more faces are recognized, but more can be misrecognized.

2) We already have wishes in the bug tracker to ignore faces and to exclude them from repeated detection.

Maik

Am Mi., 8. Apr. 2020 um 10:07 Uhr schrieb Martin Tlustos <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

 

I really like the new face recognition engine, it works much better and faster. Still, I have some questions about which I could not find any answer in the documentation:

 

1) Right now I have about 900 faces in the "unknown" section. I select and tag a couple of them with people I know and then run the "recognize faces" operation, right? It will then try and recognize the faces according to the ones I already have in my database, right? Now the problem is, that it doesn't really do that very well... I have about 300 images with faces of my wife, but they don't get recognized as my wife. Same with me, our children, grandchildren, friends etc. I have to tag again and again and rerun the recognition process. Or am I doing something wrong?

 

2) what do I do with the hundreds of faces of people I don't know and don't care about? Delete them as not being faces, or leave them in the "unknown" section?

 

Thanks a lot for any help with these!

 

Cheers, Martin