Is 8.6.0 face recognition supposed to handle animals?

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Dear all,

Thank you. For me it is slightly different as I do botanical pictures,  
etc.,  and I have 1000s, it could help a lot with fast classification.  
Also, it oculd help all poeple who do the same. Being all volunteers,  
having an open source tool would be a major plus.

One thing I was wondering was whether we can link it to such existing  
tools as PlantNet.

Kind Regards

Quoting Frédéric Da Vitoria <davito9w at free.fr>:

> 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,
>
> -- 
> Frédéric Da Vitoria