[digiKam-users] ghost faces markings

[KRODER Gerhard]

damn... sorry for pmail... here for public...


Am 24.06.2021 um 23:20 schrieb KRODER Gerhard:
> ok, tnx. I see... there wher no metadata activated for beeing written 
> :( guess i disabled it at start, not knowing what i did...
> But i do not quite understand how to "read in the image metadata again 
> with the temporary
> activation of the database cleanup". OK,  menu Maintanance, cleanup 
> database, core and additionals (faces, at least), and sync metadata 
> with db... i hope not to loose any other infomations....
>
> Am 24.06.2021 um 22:16 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
>> This problem arises when face markings are already present in the image
>> metadata, but digiKam is configured in such a way that no face 
>> metadata is
>> written into the images. Then the face regions are doubled in the wrong
>> position. You have to read in the image metadata again with the 
>> temporary
>> activation of the database cleanup.
>>
>> Maik
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2021, 19:23:41 CEST schrieb KRODER Gerhard:
>>> Hei,
>>>
>>> i accidentially managed to rotate several faces views (by a keyboard
>>> shortcut), and while finding, out what happened, and trying to recover
>>> (at the end by auto-rotate all to exif information),  i noticed there
>>> are many  ghost faces markings, i.e. additional markings in some 
>>> images.
>>> Those do not marking any face, sometimes  there is just one, somtimes
>>> many additional faces markings. I did nevernotice such ghost markings
>>> before.
>>>
>>> I did a short crosscheck on a not intersecting, other faces collection,
>>> and did not find any ghost markings there.
>>>
>>> Does anyon  have a idea, how this may happen, and how to clean up? It
>>> would be heavy to check all images of this faces colletion manually.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Gerhard
>>
>>
>>