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Hi Paul,
<div>We’re hoping to release 8.6.0 soon. There’s one last “show stopper” bug we’re working on, and we need to update the documentation for the changes. I think mid-March, but that’s a decision for Gilles and Maik.</div>
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<div>On Mar 4, 2025, at 3:41 PM, Paul Gross <pgross@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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<div>Hi Mike,</div>
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The only other piece of automated metadata is the Image Quality Sorter. IQS will analyze the image and rate it by applying a flag (red, yellow, or green).<br>
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<div>Thanks, I haven't seen this one yet so I'll check it out.</div>
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I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a new “plug-and-play” import pipeline. You can choose to have the images face scanned and recognized, auto-tagged, and IQS. It sounds like this might be something you are interested in, too?</blockquote>
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<div>Yeah, this definitely interests me. I would like as much automated work as possible, so I like the idea of configuring it once and then having it run automatically on import.
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If you like the automated metadata now, you’ll love what we have coming in 8.6.0.<br>
1. Completely rewritten face engine - It’s more accurate, simpler to use, and much faster when using “Work on all processor cores”. In some tests, it’s been over 2 times faster. Face detection and face recognition now happen in the same scan (there is still
an option for “recognize only”).<br>
2. All new Auto-Tags models. We’re using new versions of YOLO (YOLOv11), and we replaced ResNet-50 with ImageNet-B7, which is proven to be over 10% more accurate. We also added controls so you can set accuracy thresholds. Finally, we added auto-tagging to
the Labels view in the left sidebar so it’s easier to access.<br>
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<div>This all sounds great. Do you know approximately when it will be released? <br>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM Michael Miller <<a href="mailto:michael_miller@msn.com">michael_miller@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Paul,<br>
Thank you for being a digiKam user! We love to hear when people are using digiKam. It makes the hours spend developing it worthwhile.<br>
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> 1. Is there anything else I'm missing? Are there other ways to auto tag or classify images?<br>
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The only other piece of automated metadata is the Image Quality Sorter. IQS will analyze the image and rate it by applying a flag (red, yellow, or green).<br>
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> 2. Is there a way to run all of this automatically when importing new images? I have digikam set to watch my directory, and I copy files in from other sources. I would love for it to auto scan and tag everything in the background as it auto imports, instead
of having to run 3 manual scans (that each take quite a long time).<br>
I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a new “plug-and-play” import pipeline. You can choose to have the images face scanned and recognized, auto-tagged, and IQS. It sounds like this might be something you are interested in, too?<br>
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If you like the automated metadata now, you’ll love what we have coming in 8.6.0.<br>
1. Completely rewritten face engine - It’s more accurate, simpler to use, and much faster when using “Work on all processor cores”. In some tests, it’s been over 2 times faster. Face detection and face recognition now happen in the same scan (there is still
an option for “recognize only”).<br>
2. All new Auto-Tags models. We’re using new versions of YOLO (YOLOv11), and we replaced ResNet-50 with ImageNet-B7, which is proven to be over 10% more accurate. We also added controls so you can set accuracy thresholds. Finally, we added auto-tagging to
the Labels view in the left sidebar so it’s easier to access.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Mike<br>
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> On Mar 4, 2025, at 12:26 PM, Paul Gross <<a href="mailto:pgross@gmail.com" target="_blank">pgross@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Digikam folks,<br>
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> I'm a long time user of Digikam, so thank you for this great software! Recently, I've been getting into more tagging and wondering if there is a better way to automate some of this.<br>
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> Currently, after I import images to Digikam, I do the following:<br>
> - Go to people tab and run a scan to “Detect faces”<br>
> - Then run a scan to “Recognize faces”<br>
> - Then to go Tools -> Maintenance and run “Auto-tags Assignment”<br>
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> Questions:<br>
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> 1. Is there anything else I'm missing? Are there other ways to auto tag or classify images?<br>
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> 2. Is there a way to run all of this automatically when importing new images? I have digikam set to watch my directory, and I copy files in from other sources. I would love for it to auto scan and tag everything in the background as it auto imports, instead
of having to run 3 manual scans (that each take quite a long time).<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
> Paul<br>
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