[Digikam-users] Digikam Face Detection does not work for me

Thu Jul 17 18:59:44 BST 2014

i responded to digiKam.org :

https://www.digikam.org/node/714#comment-20776

Gilles Caulier

2014-07-17 19:34 GMT+02:00 Philip Johnsson <philip.johnsson at gmail.com>:
> I have nothing to do with the digikam packages in Debian Sid BUT they
> forcefully remove all haarcascades and lbpcascades files that Digikam
> provides and make the packages dependent on them as provided from the
> opencv-data package. the opencv-data package provides them in
> /usr/share/opencv/haarcascades but I'm not sure if Digikam looks for them in
> any other place than the self provided files in
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/libkface/haarcascades? Might be a packaging problem
> with Digikam or to patch Digikam to also look in
> /usr/share/opencv/haarcascades for the files...
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Am Tresen <Am.Tresen at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, thank you for your ongoing support. I managed to have it run face
>> detection properly by doing the following steps: (Debian Sid)
>>
>> 1.    Download the following repository and install it to
>> /home/$YOURUSERNAME/.kde/share/apps/
>>
>>
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/libs/libkface/repository/revisions/master/show/data
>>
>> 2. Create a haarcascades folder within the new
>> /home/YOURUSERNAME/.kde/share/apps/libkface      so that you will get
>>
>>     /home/YOURUSERNAME/.kde/share/apps/libkface/haarcascades/
>>
>> The folder will be EMPTY.
>>
>> 3. Copy all files from
>>      /home/YOURUSERNAME/.kde/share/apps/libkface/data    to
>> /home/YOURUSERNAME/.kde/share/apps/libkface/haarcascades/ folder, data
>> should contain the necessary .XML files.
>>
>> At least it worked this way for me. It was a bit cumbersome since I copied
>> every single file via terminal because I have no idea how to copy files into
>> folders which my user has no write access to, but at least it worked after
>> that.
>>
>> Thanks again for the help, much appreciated!
>>
>> Am 17.07.2014 14:00, schrieb digikam-users-request at kde.org:
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>>>     1. Re: Digikam Face Detection does not work for me (Am Tresen)
>>>     2. Re: Digikam Face Detection does not work for me (maderios)
>>>     3. Re: Digikam Face Detection does not work for me (Gilles Caulier)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:58:33 +0200
>>> From: Am Tresen <Am.Tresen at gmx.de>
>>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
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>>> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Digikam Face Detection does not work for
>>>         me
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>>> Thanks for the reply, I checked for my opencv version and it is 2.4.9,
>>> which seems to be up to date according to the sourceforge website. Does
>>> anyone else have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Today I tried manually creating a face marker and then ran the scan
>>> again, still no result. When I use Detect & Recognize or just Recognize,
>>> the progress will finish within 1 second. To me this makes sense for the
>>> recognization (because i have only 1 face marker), but why does this
>>> happen with d&r, too? Maybe this could be a hint for anything?
>>>
>>> Anyone else have ideas?
>>>
>>> Am 16.07.2014 um 14:00 schrieb digikam-users-request at kde.org:
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>>>>      1. Re: Digikam Face Detection does not work for me
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>>>> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:30:33 -0300
>>>> From: Henrique Santos Fernandes <sf.rique at gmail.com>
>>>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
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>>>> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Digikam Face Detection does not work for
>>>>         me
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>>>> Check for opencv!
>>>>
>>>> It need to be some version realy new!
>>>>
>>>> Have to compile it someway weird i guess too.
>>>>
>>>> something about it in the list archives..
>>>>
>>>> Sorry dont be more helpfull
>>>>
>>>> []'sf.rique
>>>> Henrique Santos Fernandes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Am Tresen <Am.Tresen at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong, so maybe somebody can help
>>>>> me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running Digikam 4.1.0 on Debian Sid if that is of any matter.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, here is what I do: I start digikam, go to the Persons tab on the
>>>>> left,
>>>>> click on "search for faces", set it to "merge" (but I have tried all 3
>>>>> options already out of pure desperation). I set the search options to
>>>>> "all
>>>>> collections", "all tags", and the search quality to 100 (slow).
>>>>> Digikam does not show any results after scanning my images for about 2
>>>>> hours then, no matter if I ran face-detection or face-detection and
>>>>> recognition.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:51:27 +0200
>>> From: maderios <maderios at gmail.com>
>>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
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>>> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Digikam Face Detection does not work for
>>>         me
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>>> On 07/15/2014 07:30 PM, Henrique Santos Fernandes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Check for opencv!
>>>>
>>>> It need to be some version realy new!
>>>>
>>> - In Debian Sid and Jessie,  Opencv version is the newest (2.4.9)
>>> - DK detection face is experimental
>>>
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