<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#737373" vlink="#2e3436"><div>While I would love to see the YOLO face detection included in 7.0.0, the inclusion of the new algorithm yields so many detected faces that running through the recognition process for a library with more then a hand full of faces is just frustrating.</div><div><br></div><div>As I understand it, the next version of Digikam can be made available in the Microsoft store for windows users. If this is the case, I think getting a current version out and easily available to the majority of PC users would be a huge bonus to the project and user base. </div><div><br></div><div>Maybe YOLO and the new faces work flow can follow on as a point release in the near future when all the students code gets merged back into the main tree.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 12:39 +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Hi,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Sorry for the delay, but we are busy with students working while</pre><pre>Google Summer of Code this year, about...</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>...Face Engine (DNN) and Face Workflow (GUI)...</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The students work and progress well. There will be a blog about the</pre><pre>project advancement soon. One has just posted this one :</pre><pre><br></pre><a href="https://kart1kx.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/reordering-the-people-sidebar-in-digikam/"><pre>https://kart1kx.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/reordering-the-people-sidebar-in-digikam/</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>and so yes, to respond to your original message, dysfunctions still</pre><pre>here in current 7.0.0. This is why we have 2 students this year</pre><pre>working on faces management.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>So the optimisations and improvements will appear after this summer,</pre><pre>and after we backport students branch the master code.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Now, I open an important question for everyone in this room (students,</pre><pre>end users, developers) :</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>"It's judicious to release digiKam 7.0.0 following the planned date</pre><pre>before this summer, or we need to wait a little bit after this summer</pre><pre>to integrate all faces management fixes ???"</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm waiting for constructive responses.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Thanks in advance</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Gilles Caulier</pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>