[Digikam-users] Re: What I'm doing wrong with face detection?

[Sven Burmeister]

Am Montag, 23. Mai 2011, 12:00:32 schrieb Erick Moreno:
> Hi Rinus,
> 
> I noticed that too, this happens when you are tagging faces. But, when you
> try to match new faces with existent tags, the face detection suggest new
> faces for that tag and put the suggestions together with the faces already
> confirmed. I see some problems in the way that Digikam is doing this.
> 
> 1- Of course the first problem is that Digikam can't make good suggestions
> 2- There is not a visual differentiation between faces already confirmed and
> faces suggested by digikam and not confirmed yet. Because of it you need to
> move the cursor over the picture to figure out if it is already confirmed
> or not.
> 
> Nobody else think that this is a problem?
> 
> Cheers
> Erick Moreno
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:23 AM, sleepless 
<sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>wrote:
> >  Hi Erick,
> > 
> > In my experience digikam always suggest the latest applied face tag for
> > the next one until you applie another one from then on it will suggest
> > that tag. So face detection is great, recognition not at this point in
> > my opinion (I would not recommend 100% setting but rather default).
> > 
> > It should be nice to hear how it went to other people as well.
> > 
> > Not very helpfull but it may be not you who is to blame.
> > 
> > Rinus
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Op 20-05-11 03:07, Erick Moreno schreef:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think that I'm doing something wrong with face detection using Digikam
> > 2.0.0-beta5.
> > 
> > Just after update to the new beta version, I tried to recognize some
> > faces in my photos. I made a first scan to "Detect and recognize
> > faces". This scan takes about 12hs. After that, I marked some people
> > (about 10), including me, and tried to recognize faces.
> > 
> > The result was quite disappointing, digikam suggested to mark with my
> > tag, a lot of faces from people that really doesn't look like me. I'm a
> > 28years old guy from Brazil and it suggested 80y old ladies, dogs, some
> > japanese friends, children, and go on.
> > 
> > At first I thought that the algorithm needed more information to be
> > accurate and I confirmed a lot of pictures of me (about 200) and created
> > others tags to mark people that it confuses with me with no success.
> > 
> > I made a lot of scans, merged results, tried to recognize faces again,
> > set the accuracy to 100, cleared unconfirmed results and rescan,
> > confirmed about 500 photos manually and I still can't see the face
> > recognition match faces correctly.
> > 
> > What I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > *Erick Moreno*
> > https://profiles.google.com/erickmoreno
> > 
> > 
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