How to provide feedback on auto-tag results

[Carol C. Kankelborg]

A generic system, running on a home machine will only improve if it is given feedback by users. 

This is my first time running auto-tag, so I had no idea what to expect. I would have been perfectly happy with a tag of “bird.” I was surprised that it tried to drill down to genus. I was also surprised that it had a tag specifically for “coucal.” Crows and ravens are very common whereever I have lived in the US, but I had not even heard of coucals until I looked up the tag. I would prefer a correct generic tag to an incorrect specific one.

So, my question stands, what is the best way to submit feedback to help improve the auto-tag feature of DigiKam?

Carol


> On Apr 30, 2025, at 10:42, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> On mercredi 30 avril 2025 16:54:11 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Carol C. 
> Kankelborg wrote:
>> I have several photos of ravens (possibly crows, both from the genus
>> Corvus). They were identified by Digikam’s auto-tag as “coucal,” part of
>> the cuckoo family, genus Centropus. I am pretty sure I used the default
>> settings for auto-tag (it is still running—I really should have run it
>> against a smaller set of albums— so I can’t check my settings). Is there an
>> avenue for sharing some of the photos that were misidentified with the
>> auto-tag developer?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Carol
> 
> Isn't it expecting a bit much from a generic system, running on a home 
> machine, to do as well (or better) than a dedicated system, running on a 
> server? 
> Even the latter don't get it right all the time...
> 
> Remco
> 
>