[Digikam-users] Digikam face recognition

[Henrique Santos Fernandes]

Hello,

I can also help! I don't realy use digikam yet, but i am plaining to do as
soon as i change my distribution.

shotwell was my first program, it is really easy to use but it miss a lot
of features

My resposes are below!


[]'sf.rique
Henrique Santos Fernandes

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Mike Booth <mikebooth76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

When i marked a lot of pictures and then use the "litle pop up" inside the
picture and type someone name, i think i marked all marked pictures to that
tag.



> > 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.
>

Don't know, maybe the same way as i explained before.


> > 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.
>

I feel the same way, but it assigne right.


> > 4. How can I view the images that were recognized but are unconfirmed?
>

There is this wish:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336253

I think of this as a big problem for people that start to use the face
recognition software. I can't use yet.


> > 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?
>

Don't know =/

> 6. What shortcuts are you guys using
>

Don't realy use digikam yet. so i dont know.


> >
> > 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.
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