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Digikam - wow! I love it.</div>
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Now, to possible improvements.</div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As has been pointed out by many, face recognition tends to fail to almost useless once you train the engine with some blurred or obscured
faces.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have got round this by emptying the face trainings, and starting over with some clear faces.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But it quickly degrades again.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To empty the face trainings, and start over, I have been running the following SQL commands, in my favorite db client (Dbeaver). Obviously
need external SQL DB for this.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> delete from FaceMatrices;</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> delete from Identities;</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> delete from IdentityAttributes;</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> delete from ImageTagProperties where property = "autodetectedPerson";</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(I keep everything I want to keep in sidecar .xmp files, so I don't worry about messing the DB itself).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So, my suggestion to make this work good, and it is SO CLOSE to working good, is to have a gui interface to be able to select which faces are used for each
identity.</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Then if you "accidentally" add a blurry one, it can just be removed through the gui. So each identify would keep a set of say, 5, really
good faces images.</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Then recognizing a face to this identity would NOT automatically add it to the trainings for that face ("FaceMatrices" table). </span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In short, much more user control over which faces make the training set, and which don't.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have no idea how much effort it would take to add this interface, but based on my tests, it would solve many of the problems, and
make this an even more fantastic product!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks in advance!</span></div>
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