Is 8.6.0 face recognition supposed to handle animals?

[Charlie Gorichanaz]

(Resending a yet again but in reply now to the most recent message, with
more highly compressed attachment, my first attempts were rejected due to
size or my incompetence)

I've been getting animal faces in the unknown list for at least a year or
two, so it's not new to this version. That said, I assumed it was not
specifically trained to look for animals, but things just happened to look
like a human face. Some of the examples it finds don't have the face even
visible, but most do. Here's an example:

[image: screenshot_2025-03-26_350K.jpg]

Based on what Michael Miller said, it makes sense many of my animal faces
are not caught or recognized, though I do get some correct recognitions on
my dogs after I tagged them a few times. I always manually add the tags if
they aren't caught because I like to find photos by member of the family
regardless of their species.

Animal faces are faces, too. :-)

—
Charlie Gorichanaz


On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM Michael Miller <michael_miller at msn.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device
>
>
>
> -------- 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> 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?
>>
>
> --
> Frédéric Da Vitoria
>
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