Still cant figure out face recognition under 8.7

[Charlie Gorichanaz]

Chad,

Do you have a tag called "Unconfirmed" alongside your "Unknown" tag? I
believe that's where the detected-and-potentially-matched faces should end
up, waiting for you to confirm or reject them.

The doc describes this under the Face recognition section, "To start this
process, go to the workflow tab, select *Recognize faces only*, and then
click *Scan Collection For Faces*. The process will tag similar *detected*
faces with the appropriate People tag from your tag tree, and the
corresponding thumbnail will disappear from the *Unknown* tag selection.
The thumbnail will appear in the *Unconfirmed* tag section and will be
added to the suggested face tag section."

—
Charlie Gorichanaz


On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM Chad A. Bersche <chad at bersche.com> wrote:

> I've been baffled by this as well. I'm running on Windows 11, DigiKam
> 8.7, and downloaded all the modules.  I let it grind thru a bunch of my
> libraries overnight.  It resulted in about 6000 images in the Unknown
> category.  I spent a a couple hours assigning names to people in that
> list (sometimes up to 200-300 images).  I still have 5500 in the Unknown
> bucket after classifying several hundred.
>
> After doing that, I went to run the "Recognize faces only" with
> Accuracy=7, Search in set to "All Albums" and Tags unchecked. Then when
> I do the "Scan collection for faces" nothing changes, and all the same
> Unknown images stay in the same Unknown bucket.
>
> What am I doing wrong?  I had hoped that tagging a good number of faces
> before doing the recognition would improve its accuracy, but it seems to
> just want me to do all the assignment work, which I kinda don't want to do.
>
> I'm using an external SQL database, with the database running on Linux,
> because I do use the same image libraries across Windows clients.
>
> Thanks for any help/suggestions!
>
>    -- Chad
>
> On 7/8/2025 10:43 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > You need to first detect faces on albums before you recognize them.
> > After detecting, manually tag a few faces with names, at least a few
> > ones are enough to teach the AI for an automated recognition.
> >
> > Finally, run a recognition process and look as AI recognizes similar
> > faces already registered in the model but not yet tagged in the
> > database.
> >
> > The workflow is explained in the online doc :
> > https://docs.digikam.org/en/left_sidebar/people_view.html
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > Le mer. 9 juil. 2025 à 02:08, robert lindsay
> > <robert.lindsay at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >> This is under intel mac os and I installed the modules it asked for in
> installation. Under face recognition their are boxes for rebuilding and
> training data, but i can't find on to start face recognition on albums
>
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