SUMMARY I have loaded a large collection of photos into a fresh digikam database. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. first I had not used digikam in a long time but I plan to, so I installed it 2. i loaded my local ~/Pictures folder 3. I copied my digikamrc into my USB drive where I had 175GB of photos and videos 4. I modified the config so the root folder of my photo collection is correct 5. I opened digikam with --config parameter 6. under People, I clicked "Scan collection for faces" 7. I selected "Detect and recognize faces (experimental)" option 8. kept the other options by default 9. I waited 12h for the scan to complete. 10. I closed digikam once and reopened it after the scan 11. started creating people tag and assigning them. 12. i notice it does not seems to try to auto-assign just yet? I thought it would... 13. when I assign a tag to a face, it takes several seconds for the UI to adjust. I have to wait during this time and its easy to try to go fast and make mistake. [ this should be the main item of this bug ] OBSERVED RESULT step 13 EXPECTED RESULT I should be able to assign people tags to faces faster under a tag, I can select multiple photos and right click assign/unassign but under "Unknown" I cannot select multiple pictures. sometimes it let me select 2, then on the 3rd one, it unselect the first 2. that's what I mean by Fragile SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 19.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.61.0 Qt Version: 5.12.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Thank you, I am happy to go back to use Digikam, I look forward providing constructive feedback to help cheers,
You can also select several images at the same time under "Unknown" and assign a name at the same time. Either create a rectangle with the mouse or use CTRL + mouse click. "Choosing with the plus / minus in the upper left corner does not work. As part of the GSoC-2019 have students been working on face recognition and workflow enhancements. I can promise you that digiKam will take a big step forward in face detection and recognition. Maik
Another thing is, you're using an old digiKam version. Did you start with a new face database? Maik
7.0.0-beta1 is out with new Face Recognition algorithm based on Deep Learning/Neural Network API from OpenCV https://download.kde.org/unstable/digikam/ Please test and give us a feedback Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier
Point 12: See the Neural Network example from digiKam 7.0.0-beta1 performing faces recognition with 2 items face-tagged in first. https://i.imgur.com/HHF4T9X.png 1 new item is recognized, name-tagged, highlighted with green frame, and linked in "unconfirmed" virtual tag for confirmation. Recognition work well using Deep Learning and give 97% of true positive results. Look well my comments on the screenshot. Point 13 : Not reproducible here with 7.0.0-beta1 I close this file now. Merry Christmas and Happy new year. Gilles Caulier