Thanks for the update. Every now and then, I install the latest digikam (10 years ago, back in 2011, I even bought @dmpop’s Digikam Recipes e-book), and then find it’s still not for me. I don’t catalogue and tag images much, and use darktable for editing. However, the face recognition intrigued me (I have lots of family shots). Unfortunately, after a day of fruitless attempts, I gave up.
- Despite unchecking the ‘Disable OpenCL’ setting, my nVidia 1060/6GB card was left idle; my Ryzen 5 5600X did not finish reading my photo directory (admittedly, over 200k entries) in a day.
- Face detection worked fine, in the sense that if found lots of faces…
- … many of whom were bystanders and the like. I have not found a way to automatically find the recurring faces, and attempt to tag only those.
- I’ve added a few family members as tags, and tagged a few images, then ran face recognition (on a small portion of images imported overnight). When I came across a photo of family member X in a group of unconfirmed photos for family member Y, and I changed the name to X, the default name also changed to X – meaning that if I clicked the + sign on a photo of the ‘unconfirmed Y’ set, it was assigned to X, not to Y.
- When editing an unconfirmed match, I have not found a way to ignore a photo; clicking - simply moved it from ‘unconfirmed match’ to ‘unknown’, and then I had to go to the ‘unknown’ group to ignore the photo.
- Matches, in general, were very poor, even when I moved the required accuracy above 90%. This may have been because my subjects are mostly my kids, and tagging shots of baby X and teenager X may not produce a good model of ‘face X’.