Fictional scenario:
I got a PC with a fresh installed digikam so there is no face recognition database.
When I add a Folder full of images that were already processed by face detection (by digikam or another software) on another PC and have the info in the metadata, are the images (or rather said the face info) automatically get added to the face recognition database when I import them?
Or is the facetag metadata from the image just the info about the position and name and therefore no recognition data will get added to the database?
Hi @Pepe,
The metadata facetag is just coordinates and the tag name. It does not include the information necessary to match the face to other faces. If you are importing images and the facetag is in the metadata, you need to retrain the face database by going to Tools->Maintenance->Detect and Recognize Faces->Retrain…
The data used to match faces is specific to each program, so it can’t really be expressed in metadata that’s supposed to be portable.