Is 8.6.0 face recognition supposed to handle animals?

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

On 29/03/2025 15:41, Michael Miller wrote:
> Strictly speaking, no we can’t update the face models to look for 
> other faces or objects.
>
> However, I’ve been exploring adding additional models that are 
> specialized for various tasks like identifying flowers and animals, 
> and one specifically for birds (my mother-in-law loves to take bird 
> pictures). There are many, many models available, and with the new 
> pipelines and classifiers in digiKam 8.6.0, it’s quite easy to add them.
>
> The idea is that we would make the specialized models optional 
> downloads and then make them available in the auto tagging feature. 
>  We can explore this feature if enough people think it’s useful.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

I have a few pictures of wild flowers and birds. I could live without 
automatic tagging, but  I guess it could help.

Regards,

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Frédéric Da Vitoria