[digiKam-users] status of the face detecting?

[Tóth Csaba]

Hello!
> "It's judicious to release digiKam 7.0.0 following the planned date
> before this summer, or we need to wait a little bit after this summer
> to integrate all faces management fixes ???"
I already use the beta for the face engine and workflow, so from my view 
is all the same.
I think one of the big rolls is the face engine in the 7.0.0, i think 
need to wait and integrated all inside...

Thanx
Csaba

On 2020-06-08 12:41, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Another blog post :
>
> https://kart1kx.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/ignored-category-in-digikam/
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le lun. 8 juin 2020 à 12:39, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for the delay, but we are busy with students working while
>> Google Summer of Code this year, about...
>>
>> ...Face Engine (DNN) and Face Workflow (GUI)...
>>
>> The students work and progress well. There will be a blog about the
>> project advancement soon. One has just posted this one :
>>
>> https://kart1kx.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/reordering-the-people-sidebar-in-digikam/
>>
>> and so yes, to respond to your original message, dysfunctions still
>> here in current 7.0.0. This is why we have 2 students this year
>> working on faces management.
>>
>> So the optimisations and improvements will appear after this summer,
>> and after we backport students branch the master code.
>>
>> Now, I open an important question for everyone in this room (students,
>> end users, developers) :
>>
>> "It's judicious to release digiKam 7.0.0 following the planned date
>> before this summer, or we need to wait a little bit after this summer
>> to integrate all faces management fixes ???"
>>
>> I'm waiting for constructive responses.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le jeu. 4 juin 2020 à 13:47, Tóth Csaba <ignis at domen.hu> a écrit :
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I'm using the Build date: May 22 2020 (target: RelWithDebInfo) version
>>> on windows 10.
>>>
>>> In the 7.0 Beta1 (?) 2(?) (in January) the new face detecting (with deep
>>> learning, or other soft computing) debut. At that point in the "people"
>>> tab pane, was new options for face detecting: rebuild, learning
>>> something related for the learning algorithm, but in the new versions it
>>> is missing.
>>>
>>> And I read days before about the improvements to the faceengine.
>>>
>>> So what is under the hood? Its the "new" one with the deep-learning, or
>>> the old one what is was in the 6.x?
>>>
>>> (what is now working is new very useful: many face not detected, the
>>> recognize is suggest wrong faces example with glasses for people without
>>> glasses)
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>>
>>> Csaba
>>>