[Digikam-users] Digikam face recognition

[Mike Booth]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:20:51 Andreas Weigl wrote:
> Hi
> 
> first of all great job. I love digikam and I am using it for years now.
> 
> I am currently on Fedora with digikam 4.2.0. I have to admit I never worked
> much with the face detection and recognition and wanted to start now but to
> be honest, I have no idea how it is supposed to work. What is the work flow?
> 
> I mean it is easy to tell digikam to start and scan, limit the scan to
> folders and such, but what then? Whatever digikam find and can not
> recognize lands in Unknown.
> 
> So here a couple of questions:
> 1. Is there a way to assign a bunch of pictures at once to one people tag?
> I tried marking a bunch of pictures and dragging them onto the tag but it
> then assigned unknown.
> 2. Is there a way to say for a bunch of pictures "these are not faces". The
> only way I found is doing it one by one.
> 3. When I hover over a picture I can start to type the name, below I get a
> list with possible options and create new. If I start to type "And" for
> "Andreas" and select my name then "And" remains in the search field. To be
> honest I think every time I assigned "And" instead of the name.
> 4. How can I view the images that were recognized but are unconfirmed?
> 5. How do you deal with unknown persons. Do you leave them in unknown? How
> do I then find the pictures that I have not checked yet? I could assign a
> people name AAA_unknown or something but would this not mess up the
> recognition? If i say "it is not a face" (the white x on the red ball in
> the top right corner of the image) does that have any negative consequences
> on the detection and recognition?
> 6. What shortcuts are you guys using
> 
> I would be willing to do the documentation but I need to first know how it
> is supposed to work.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Andy



You've captured my problem with face recognition  exactly. Good Luck

Mike

PS If I can assist I'd be happy to.