Bug 170801

Summary:	automatically tag with face recognition
Product:	[Applications] kphotoalbum	Reporter:	Silas De Munck <s.dem>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KPhotoAlbum Bugs <kpabugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alexander.balzer, alexjironkin, johannes
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Silas De Munck 2008-09-10 15:16:45 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

It would be very nice if photo's could be automatically tagged by using face recognition techniques. All your photo's could be scanned for people, then grouped by similarity and tagged all at once. If already tagged people are found, they could be tagged without user intervention.

Would be very nice!

Comment 1 Jan Kundrát 2008-11-19 22:13:35 UTC

Got a library for face recognition?

Comment 2 Silas De Munck 2008-11-20 10:46:47 UTC

Maybe OpenCV: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/ ?

Comment 3 Silas De Munck 2008-11-20 10:49:27 UTC

I believe digikam already uses this library to perform automatic red-eye correction...

Comment 4 Alex 2009-06-23 11:05:23 UTC

Face Detection is easy, OpenCV does this using Haar filter. Face recognition on the other hand is very very very hard. I am pretty positive OpenCV doesn't have this feature, of face recognition, yet.

Although if anybody know of any other non proprietary library that provides that support, would be interesting to have a look at that.

Comment 5 Alex 2009-06-24 11:09:42 UTC

I had a look around the internet for something suitable, first of all apparently IPhoto 9, I think, has this face recognition technology. But I guess Apple just bought the company that developed it originally, because I just can't find anything about it on the internet. 

With regards to open source equivalents, there is libFace, http://libface.sourceforge.net/index.html, but that is in preAlpha and doesn't look it has been active for a while. Other then that, might have to write own code for it. One of the ideas is Eigen Face.

Comment 6 Alexander Balzer 2009-08-12 14:11:41 UTC

There is also a feature request for digikam
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146288

Maybe it could be implemented as a general approach (so other project could use it)

Comment 7 Johannes Zarl-Zierl 2013-05-22 22:13:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292900 ***