How to provide feedback on auto-tag results

[Carol C. Kankelborg]

I am very new at this, so these are just my observations so far:

You can run auto-tag again and overwrite what was written (this is a setting). You might want to do this if you want to try different settings or if there is a big improvement in the feature. (If I understand correctly, 8.6 introduced a big improvement to auto-tag and facial recognition.)

The auto tags are segregated under the parent tag “auto.” They are completely independent from the tags you created manually. I assume this means you can simply delete the auto tags and they will disappear from your images. (I have not tried this.)

You are wise to try this on a test album. I tested the feature on a small album, then jumped in with a collection of 20,000 images. I had to abort after 24  hours because I needed my battery to last through a 3-hour zoom. I should have played around with it a bit more before jumping in with both feet. 

Good luck.



> On Apr 30, 2025, at 19:01, <digikam at sritch.com> <digikam at sritch.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:21:13 -0500
> "Carol C. Kankelborg" <cckborg2 at kankelborg.net> wrote:
> 
>> A generic system, running on a home machine will only improve if it
>> is given feedback by users. 
>> 
>> This is my first time running auto-tag, so I had no idea what to
>> expect. I would have been perfectly happy with a tag of “bird.” I
>> was surprised that it tried to drill down to genus. I was also
>> surprised that it had a tag specifically for “coucal.” Crows and
>> ravens are very common whereever I have lived in the US, but I had
>> not even heard of coucals until I looked up the tag. I would prefer
>> a correct generic tag to an incorrect specific one.
>> 
>> So, my question stands, what is the best way to submit feedback to
>> help improve the auto-tag feature of DigiKam?
> 
> Sorry to but in, but...
> 
> I was wondering about the auto-tag. Once run, is there a way to
> "un-run" on a trial album?
> 
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