[Digikam-devel] Re: Status of face detection

Alex Jironkin alexjironkin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 14:12:58 BST 2010


Hi,

Can you make a copy of that image and blur out printed/handwritten text and see if that improves?


Thanks

Alex


On 28 Oct 2010, at 14:03, Gert Kello wrote:

> Hi.
> 
>> I have scanned about 3000 real-life holiday images in the last days.
>> The scanning is on the "fast and safe" side: You will have false positives,
>> but the real faces form the majority. You will easily find faces which are not
>> recognized - strong shadows, rotated head, closed eyes are typical.
>> But my overall impression is quite good (at least I have this evidence with a
>> certain female face I happen to take photos of quite often)
> 
> For me the face detection seems to hang on a photo that has a document
> shot up (both printed and handwritten text).. There is no errors but
> process seems to jam, cpu usage is zero.
> 
> I can't send that specific file, it contains a bit sensitive
> information. Can I otherwise assist You somehow?
> 
> Gert
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