By default, again, when you do that the name of the person you last tagged comes up rather than, oh, the person it thinks it is.Īfter selecting the option to delete all the old data and starting again, I do seem to have it working, even if the neural network seems to be particularly attracted by things like orientation of the face rather than whose face it is, but it was a lot harder than it needs to be. even if, again, there's no way to see who it thinks they are without entering at least one letter. It did put a pile of people in 'unconfirmed' which is an improvement.
There doesn't seem to be the option to do part of an album.Ĭlicking on 'advanced' shows that you've been using the old algorithm anyway - I think - and you should have known to click 'options / advanced / recognise faces with deep learning' to use the new one.
It turns out that you have to click 'options' and only then do you see that you have to unclick 'whole albums collection' and then select an album to do just one. It rescans the whole collection, not just the ones selected. 'Scan collection for faces' / 'Scan again and merge results' / 'recognise faces (experimental) / Scan! The third time, I had selected seven items in one folder that only had people with lots of tags already for them. Perhaps the 'unknown' number dropped by one, but there's no indication as to what got tagged or who as. The second time, almost nothing happened. Even if the face looked totally different: gender and/or ethnic origin didn't matter, it was them according to digiKam! There seemed no way to stop this or correct it, and I ended up closing the program, restarting it, deleting that person's tag, and starting again with them. The first time, it thought everyone in the unknown category was the person I'd last tagged - their 'number' was going up and up. Three things have happened to me doing that. (Think 'if I carry on like this, I will have to do them all individually AND THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF FACIAL RECOGNITION'.) (Also notice that even in examples that should be obvious - two JPEGs developed from the same RAW file by different programs, one tagged, and while tagging the second one - it will often have at least two names in bold.) There should be a simpler way to say 'yes, it's them' - display the 'is it this person?' options without having to enter a character, for example.) (Notice that every time, when you click to tag a face, it will show the name you last tagged, even though it looks like - by putting the names in bold when you type at least one letter - it also has an idea as to who they are. Click on the 'red cross' for ones that aren't. It finds loads of things that it thinks are faces. My attempt at the digiKam 7.0.0b3 workflow, with the default settings for sensitivity etc, was: I see that 7.x has a new facial recognition engine, so go straight to that (why train a system that's about to be obsoleted and presumably isn't as good?) rather than version 6.4. I have just noticed that, since I last looked at it, digiKam started to do facial recognition. It almost always got them right, and it was easy to correct mistakes. If you accept the suggestions - and there's a single click way to say, 'yes, they're all correct' - it will suggest more.
Identities with provisional identifications are clearly marked. It will then, without me doing anything, add some faces to identity tags, but mark them as provisional in the folder of the identities concerned.
#Digikam recognize faces windows
I am also coming from Picasa (run in a Windows VM, after the Linux version stopped working following various system updates over the years.) Facial recognition is a big reason for having stuck with it for so long: it's much better at putting names to faces than I have ever been.
#Digikam recognize faces update
then rescan another 200 photos this time, update / correct the face tags, then it should be good to do the remainder of your library. The other way to do it is just scan for faces on 100 photos in your library, update all the face tags manually for everyone. Next time you scan for that person it will detect it really well, and the more you scan the better it gets. I found it doesn't detect the presence of faces very well with side profile. Go through the unconfirmed or unknown faces and add that person as well. Manually go through the ones that detected that person and confirm. Now you can click people on the left hand menu, then scan collection for faces (but not your whole library, just a folder or two that has lots of that person in it). Then manually enter the name of the person for the tagĭo this for another 20 photos for that person. I had to teach digikam the faces intially. This is working fine for me in digikam 6.4