Face detection based tagging

i click a lot of pictures of my family members. a lot of repeat faces therefore.
is there a way to tag images based on a reference image (using face detection?).
might be possible now but i could not find anything through a google search.
thanks!

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Face detect behavior on previously tagged images

Hi,
I transfered all my previously tagged images (before face detect feature was available) to the newly created "people" tags. For example, PSE8 face detect created a tag for Claudia (my wife), I then transfered all the photos with my wife on them that I had manually tagged before PSE8. I did that for all my "favorite" faces. Of course, all the photos added to the organizer AFTER installing PSE8 have been added using this feature
PSE8 keeps asking me "Who is this?" for older photos (added before PSE8) even when these photos are already tagged with the proper face tags.
How should I proceed?
How should I handle photos that were added before PSE8?
Should I keep "teaching" PSE8 so it recognized the faces for all my pre-PSE8 images?
I have around 3,000 images in the organizer pre-PSE8
Any comments will be greatly appreciated

Thanks John.
In a related question. PSE8 face detect algorithms do not seem to remember one of my favorite faces (wife wife's!!)... In every rectangle of her face, it will never suggest her name from the usual three options... it will autocomplete her name, though. Even after several sessions, it will never suggest her name.
Is this common? This behavior seems only specific to her face.
Should I delete her face tag and start all over?
What do you reccommend?
Thanks

Proper merging of new face detect tags with previous tags

Hi,
In PSE7 I had thousands of photos tagged with People tags. The way I had my people tags was somewhat odd but it worked very well for me. For example, I had one tag per person for popular poeple (my wife and daughters) but I also have one tag for one group of people (i.e. The Smiths, or my daughter's friends) where the tag would be placed in any pic with "any" member of that group. This way I did not ended up with hundreds of individual people tags and it was very easy to apply the tags.
Since I wanted to try the new face tagging feature in PSE8 (which I liked and thus will continue to use), I now have my old people tags PLUS the new face detect tags. For example, I have two tags for Claudia, my daughter and so on.
Q1: What is the proper way to merge these duplicated tags? Should I just add all the photos from the old people tag to the new (face detected) tags by dragging/droping the new face tag icon to the selected pics?
Q2: How can I make my group tagging strategy work with the new automatic face detect tagging? which is basically a one tag for one person kind of thing.
Q3: Since we are on the subject of smart tags... I don't see the value in the auto analyze feature and thus would like to erase all those smart tags (high quality, blur, etc). Is there a way to delete these tags without deleting the face detect tags?
Thank you very much for your help

Q1: What is the proper way to merge these duplicated tags? Should I just add all the photos from the old people tag to the new (face detected) tags by dragging/droping the new face tag icon to the selected pics?
Yes. Note that when using face tagging, you can type in the name of a pre-existing People tag and PSE should use that tag (at least it does in my catalog). But you need to type it in exactly -- otherwise, PSE will create a new one. Once you've typed an existing People tag once into face tagging, PSE will then "auto-complete" it in the future.
Q2: How can I make my group tagging strategy work with the new automatic face detect tagging? which is basically a one tag for one person kind of thing.
I think you need to bite the bullet and create one tag for each person. But the auto-complete tag-typing feature of PSE should make that easier than when you had to painfully scroll your tag heirarchy and drag over a tag.
Q3: Since we are on the subject of smart tags... I don't see the value in the auto analyze feature and thus would like to erase all those smart tags (high quality, blur, etc). Is there a way to delete these tags without deleting the face detect tags?
Does anyone see the value of Auto-Analyzer? :-; To delete one of those tags, check it to show just the photos with that tag. Then do Edit > Select All, right click Remove Keyword Tag.

IOS photo app vs iPhoto, keywords, smart albums, face detection?

greetings,
i have some questions about iOS photos app in comparison to iPhoto (in 10.8). i've done a little searching on the web and in the forum, but didn't see this covered...
i always sync my iPhone to my mac, copy/import my photos to iPhoto, and use iPhoto to organize my photos. in iPhoto, i tag photos (keywords) and use "smart albums" to access all my photos based upon the keyword tags. face detection in iPhoto is GREAT!.   i have all my friends faces named and finding them by "people" grouping is fantastic. the down side to all of this is that i have everything working great on my mac, but usually i'm using the photos app in the iPhone to show pics to my friends since that is what i have with me. i'm not sure if this information in iPhoto ever gets synced back to my iPhone.
1- does the iOS photos app have any of these features from iPhoto?
     in other words, can i tag photos, lable the faces of friends, set up smart albums in iOS photos? if so, please point me to some info. i haven't seen an obvious way to do any of this.
2- can i sync what i do in iPhoto back to my iPhone?
     in other words, can i get the tags, peoples' names on their faces, and smart albums copied from iPhotos back to my iPhone? is there some setting or command in iPhoto, or somewhere else?
3- i just turned on photostream. can/does this iPhoto data transfer via photostream to the iPhone?
i have an iPhone 4.
i am just about ready to upgrade from iOS 5 to iOS 6. so if any of these features are specific to iOS 6, please let me know.
i'd appreciate it if you could mention if there is anything special about iOS in the iPad, because a friend has asked me how she can do in her iPad (iOS 6), what i do with iPhoto in my mac.
thank you for any suggestions or advice.

You're best bet would be to do your own comparison: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iphoto/id497786065?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iphoto/id408981381?mt=12

Forcing Face Detection for All Pictures in an Event

Aperture 3.0 fails to detect all faces in all photos in an Event. Is there a way to force face detection for all photos in an Event? As it stands now, one cannot tag photos for faces if Aperture decides (erroneously) that photos don't contain a face.
Spent ninety minutes with Apple Aperture Support, who confirmed this.

I don't know how to answer your first question (force it for all photos), but I thought you could add faces / names to a photo using the Name button left hand side of the toolbar. I've used it today to add a "Face" to a photo containing two hands because I wanted to tag each hand with a Name. So I clicked Name, and drew a box on each hand and added a Name to it. So it works for a single photo but that might be a pain to do for a lot
David

Face detection hit and miss

I am finding this feature to be very hit and miss. I have a lot of folders with full-on, well-exposed face shots that LR is not picking up faces in, and other folders with partial faces that are obscured, dark, or over blown that it is picking out faces in. Then there were the random squiggles of grass that LR thought was my very bald brother...
There doesn't seem to be a way to get it to re-check folders, and "find similar faces" doesn't seem to do anything but look for faces I've already confirmed - the naming makes it seem like if you say, "Hey, here's a face to look for," it would go back through the folder/catalog and look for similar faces that weren't already picked out.
It's got potential, but in its current state, I'm going to have to go through and manually choose faces in thousands of photos that LR theoretically should be picking out. Bummer.
Keep working on it, Adobe.

My experience so far with LRs face detection is a little disappointing as well.
I understand that machine face recognition has severe limits. Persons age, change in expression, glasses, hats... not to speak of angle of shooting, light conditions etc etc. Plus it needs to be computationally feasible.
And yet when I started to name a person, particularly after having tagged some childhood pictures, the suggestions started to get very very odd, including faces from the opposite sex, some graphic ornaments on a wall, and ancient Greek statues.
And then going through a large collection (again!), with thousands of clicks...
Adding to the disappointment: Although LR CC writes face data to XMP-mwg-rs tags (jay!), it does NOT read and process existing XMP-mwg-rs written by other software (Nooooooo!).
Thousands and thousands clicks to go, again...

Face detection like picasa or better please...

this could be a really time saver feature!
request: please use better face detection algoritm than picasa... picasa miss a lot of faces and ask a lot of time if person is correct or wrong!

Yes, a face detection algorithm would make sense in a organizer like Bridge.
Or in general the ability to search pictures for a specific content, color etc.
For example, you open one picture as "source" for the search and mark the areas you wish to search for. For person/face detection search it could also be useful to define several pictures from different perspectives as source. And of course you should be able to save specific search criteria. So everytime you upload new fotos from your camera, they should automatically (or by a simple "one-click-button") be searched for "known" faces and tagged.
Is there something like that in development by Adobe?

Face detection freezes my system

Has any of you experienced hanging/freezing problems while face detection is running? I tagged a couple of faces from my pictures (my library size is about 70gb) and shortly after this my whole system hangs. Mouse still moves, but I cannot click anything and I can't even bring up force quit even using keyboard shortcut!

Yes. Although it doesn't crash iPhoto for me, it brings my system to a crawl while it looks for faces in photographs of trees, buildings, clouds etc. I don't take many pictures of people, and I just don't want it to try to identify anyone. I haven't defined any faces, so why is it looking? So it can identify that complete stranger that accidently walked into my photo of Angkor Wat?
I really really want a way just to switch this off. Please. Howsabout if you haven't defined any faces it doesn't look for any? I mean, if you haven't already defined a face, why is it looking at all?!
Please make it stop.

I downloaded ios5.1.1 to my phone, but i dont like the new software. The face detection used in the camera jut isnt for me. So, i would like to know if there was a way to undo the update and go back to ios 5.0.1. My iphone is not jailbroken or unlocked.

i downloaded ios5.1.1 to my phone, but i dont like the new software. The face detection used in the camera jut isnt for me. So, i would like to know if there was a way to undo the update and go back to ios 5.0.1. My iphone is not jailbroken or unlocked.

The face detection used in the camera jut isnt for me.
Try a different camera app. Camera Plus is a good one and there are many others.

Tips For Improving Face Detection Accuracy

These are some rules I have slowly discovered that have helped improve the accuracy of iPhotos' face detection.
a. Don't force iPhoto to recognize *+every single+* instance of an individuals face. (If you need to create a location containing every instance of an individual, then you need to setup a Smart Folder using the persons' name as a Description or Keyword. "Faces" is not the section to do this. See a suggestion below for using "Faces" to do this.)
b. Avoid confirming really poor quality examples of a persons face (low light, pixelated, off in the distance, etc)
c. Avoid confirming only partially visible faces (hair covering half the face, head turned away to a profile, extreme angles too high or too low, etc)
d. Avoid too many instances in which the person's eyes are closed. (Obviously, sunglasses are a real problem here as well)
e. Avoid instances where the persons head is tilted 45 degrees or more, unless the software recognizes the face on it's own.
f. Avoid instances where the face has areas of heavy shadow, and the light source is at right angles to the face. (Outdoors with Sun directly overhead or near horizon.) If face is in an "even" shadow that seems to be OK.
g. Clearly, the more full frontal, clearly lit views of an individuals' face you can include, the better the face detection will be.
h. If you do use the "Add Missing Face" button, then restrict the selection box to just around the eyebrows, nose and mouth. Avoid selecting the whole head since the face detection software concentrates on the features in the center of the face. No need to include the hair as it does not appear to be a factor.
*Gathering Every Instance of a Persons' Face*
Here is how you could use "Faces" to gather every photo of an individual, yet maintain its' face detection accuracy. Mind you, this may only be practical with relatively small libraries, not libraries with 10's of thousands of photos.
1. First, go ahead and name *+every instance+* of an individuals' face (Even poor quality examples).
2. Then, within the "Faces" corkboard section, open that persons' album and "Select All" of their photos (Do this before the Faces scan is complete or you will also select all of the suggested faces under "So-and_So may also be in the photos below")
3. Next, create "New Album from selection..." and give it the name of the person. (Alternatively, you could "Batch Change..." all the selected photos with a "Description" using the persons' name and then use a "Smart Album" to gather all of the persons' photos. This could be handy for adding future photos of the person automatically to the Smart Album.)
4. Once that is complete, now "Reject" all poor quality, or partially visible examples of the persons' face within Faces. This will improve the software's future accuracy at detecting the persons' face in new photos added to the library.
If, at a future date, you add another large group of photos containing that persons' face, you can repeat steps 1 & 2 and simply drag all the photos to the persons' Album. Or "Batch Change..." the Description again to automatically include the newly added photos to the Smart Album you created earlier.
In the end I have discovered that the Faces section of iPhoto is really more a "tool" for creating Albums, rather than a destination for viewing photos.
Hope this helps. Feel free to add any suggestions you have discovered for improving the face detection accuracy.
Cheers

Glenn Carter wrote:
h. If you do use the "Add Missing Face" button, then restrict the selection box to just around the eyebrows, nose and mouth. Avoid selecting the whole head since the face detection software concentrates on the features in the center of the face. No need to include the hair as it does not appear to be a factor.
Apparently you shouldn't worry too much about what you select for the face area when using "Add Missing Face"... From Apple's knowledgebase at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3427:
Note: Only faces that have been automatically detected in your photo library will help iPhoto match faces. Manually identified faces will not aid iPhoto's face-matching ability.
So, unless they later come out with an update that actually uses that data, any effort you make in selecting especially accurate face regions is going to waste. (Though I'll admit I'm still putting in the effort in the hope that the data will someday be used for something in a future version of iPhoto...)

Is any software available for face detection to unlock screen?

is any software available for face detection to unlock screen?

No. Third party software annot control the operating system.

Re-run face detection

Hi,
I jumped from 06 to 11 so faces is a new things for me. I tried to search for a way to re-run the face detection after matching 500+ photos. Is there a way to use existing database to work on the rest of the photos?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,

It seems like one of the more requested enhancements on the forum
The official Adobe feedback forum already has 35 people requesting it: Lightroom 6/CC - Allow facial recognition feature to re-index a folder/collection. Please add your vote and opinion.

Unable to detect NFC tag (ISO15693) in Lumia 830 on windows Phone 8.1

Microsoft in Windows phone 8.1 has added new Nfc related features including low level access(Non NDEF). I have Nokia Lumia 830 (PN547 NFC chipset is present in this device).Im not able to detect Nfc tag (ANT-7M24LR-A ,ISO15693) through Lumia 830, which
im able to read/write using Nfc-V(ISO15693) in Android. I also have a Lumia 720 (old NFC hardware) but atleast it is able to detect the tag. Has anyone encountered this ? Whats the workaround ?

Hi Franklin,
Thank you for the quick reply.
Current OS version on the Lumia 830 is : Windows Phone 8.1 Update (8.10.14157.200)
I have taken reference of the NFC Smart Card Reader project(nfcsmartcardreader codeplex) to read/ write to the tag. We are trying to read/write to the tag (ISO 15693) using the low level APIs (Non NDEF format).
But my problem is that even before we can send/receive the data from the tag, the phone is not detecting the tag itself. If i try to debug the card added event doesnot fire in any case for (ANT-7 M24-LR-A) tag.
I also have a Lumia 720 (old NFC hardware) but it is atleast able to detect the above mentioned tag.
Lumia 830 is able to detect other tags like a generic NFC sticker (Mifare Ultralight) .
Hi theDarkPriest,
>>I have taken reference of the NFC Smart Card Reader project(nfcsmartcardreader codeplex) to read/ write to the tag
Well, have you tied to read NFC Tag using Proximity API? If not, please refer to this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2013/04/18/develop-a-cutting-edge-app-with-nfc.aspx
If the Proximity API can detect NFC Tag correctly, I think this issue should caused by this third-party library, you need to ask for help in its official site:
https://nfcsmartcardreader.codeplex.com/discussions
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Problem in implements ADF Faces: Detecting and handling user session expiry

Hello everybody
I´m trying to implement a method to handle user session expiry as explained by frank nimphius in his blog.
http://thepeninsulasedge.com/frank_nimphius/2007/08/22/adf-faces-detecting-and-handling-user-session-expiry/
I have implemented the class bellow and add the filters in web.xml. However when I add the JavaServer Faces Servlet to sign the filter, my hole application get nuts. I try to publish the applicatoin in the OAS and it seems that it already starts expired.
Someone konw what I´m doing wrong?
I use the filter
<filter>
<filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>adf.sample.ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>SessionTimeoutRedirect</param-name>
<param-value>SessionExpired.jspx</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
then I add
XML:
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>
package adf.sample;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
this is the class
public class ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter implements Filter {
private FilterConfig _filterConfig = null;
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
_filterConfig = filterConfig;
public void destroy() {
_filterConfig = null;
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
String requestedSession = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getRequestedSessionId();
String currentWebSession = ((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession().getId();
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// request and "false" is acceptable
if (!sessionOk && requestedSession != null){
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((HttpServletResponse) response).sendRedirect(_filterConfig.getInitParameter("SessionTimeoutRedirect"));
else{
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I'm really having trouble controlling user sessions. if someone know where I can get materials to learn how to implements session in Jdev ADF + BC, I´m very grateful.
Thank you Marnie

The class works fine.. the issue is when I add the this code into web.xml
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>
bellow the web.xml
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<web-app>
<description>Empty web.xml file for Web Application</description>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>client</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>CpxFileName</param-name>
<param-value>userinterface.DataBindings</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>view.managedBean.ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
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<filter-name>adfFaces</filter-name>
<filter-class>oracle.adf.view.faces.webapp.AdfFacesFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>adfBindings</filter-name>
<filter-class>oracle.adf.model.servlet.ADFBindingFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ApplicationSessionExpiryFilter</filter-name> ==> the problem occurs when I try to add this code
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>adfFaces</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>adfBindings</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>adfBindings</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.jspx</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>resources</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>oracle.adf.view.faces.webapp.ResourceServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>resources</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/adf/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>1</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>html</extension>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>txt</extension>
<mime-type>text/pain</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
</web-app>
By the way, how can I post code on the forum properly?

Why No Face Detection for Mobileme Gallery?

I know to perform face detection, i goto Events, select a photo, then click the "Name" icon on the bottom toolbar, type in the name, and iPhoto will take care of the rest.
But when i open the Mobileme galleries in iPhoto and select photos, there is no "Name" icon on the bottom toolbar. How could i perform the face detection for mobileme photos then?
Help very much appreciated

You can't. You'll need to do your naming with the versions in your Library.
Regards
TD

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