Faces support [$265]

[Jim Nelson]

The team should be aware of the "faces" branch in Shotwell's master repo. A great deal of good work was performed by Valentin Barros to add face support to Shotwell. This involved writing a major UI tool (drawing boundaries on faces, typing in a name, autocompletion) and integration with a face recognition library.

However, the branch lacks certain integrating features, like the ability to connect a face to an address book or social network. Also, at the time of coding, the recognition software left something to be desired (not accurate enough).

If this is desireable for Photos, a good place to start would be the faces branch on Shotwell's git repo. I should add that this is by far the most requested feature missing in Shotwell today.

A listing of bugs filed against the branch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=shotwell&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=faces

The branch itself: https://git.gnome.org/browse/shotwell/log/?h=faces

[boubous74 (philippe-vigneau-e)]

We really need that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1xqH72iEU

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1424389-faces-support

[PeterPall (peterpall)]

The question is if we really need all at once:
 - I think increasing the accuracy of OpenCV would be a separate (and big) task.
 - And Address book integration is nice - but only a second step.
 - The same applies to an IM- and social media integration:
If shotwell would allow to specify which faces are on a picture and most of the times detect them automatically that would be really nice and be a good foundation for many features to come.

[davidak (davidak)]

this is an important feature since digiKam, iPhoto, Picasa and Lightroom has it.

so i added some money resulting in a bounty of $200!

[Steven Roose (stevenroose)]

It might help promoting this upstream at the Shotwell repo as well. I added a $100 bounty to this Shotwell issue.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3626147-faces-face-detection