Is 8.6.0 face recognition supposed to handle animals?

[Michael Miller]

Hello everyone,
Face detection is optimized for human faces. It will occasionally detect animal faces. You can try setting the detection accuracy slider to 4 or 5 to see if it will detect more animal faces, but this will also increase the number of false positives.

Cheers,
Mike



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-------- Original message --------
From: Frédéric Da Vitoria <davito9w at free.fr>
Date: 3/26/25 10:23 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: digikam-users at kde.org
Subject: Re: Is 8.6.0 face recognition supposed to handle animals?

Thank you for your answer.

I just checked, it detected only 2 dog faces, and it missed hundreds of others, including more than 300 pictures of the 2 dogs it just detected. So maybe face recognition works, but face detection isn't very efficient? Anyhow, I'm going to tell him those dog's names and hope it will find other occurrences.

Regards,

On 26/03/2025 18:01, Gilles Caulier wrote:
Hi,

Here my dog's face is also detected and recognized if tagged previously. So, I think the model has been taught with domestic animals, at least. I don't test with cats anyways (no cat at home (:-)))...

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 26 mars 2025 à 17:33, Frédéric Da Vitoria <davito9w at free.fr<mailto:davito9w at free.fr>> a écrit :
Hello,

I updated to 8.6.0. In the unknown faces folder, I found 2 dogs. Should
I tell dK to ignore them or is there any chance the new face recognition
engine will recognise those dogs in the future?


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Frédéric Da Vitoria
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