Comment 78 for bug 507511

Another option which could be considered to have facial recognition in Digikam could be to use the Polar Rose web service (http://www.polarrose.com/).

I have just noticed that there is a module to perform facial recognition using Polar Rose inside Gallery 3 open source gallery system (http://gallery.menalto.com/).

A discussion about this module and how it works is here :
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/86320

The module is here :
http://github.com/gallery/gallery3-contrib/tree/master/modules/polar_rose

It seems that the Polar Rose service can download a rss feed of pictures and return facial recognition information for it.

Of course this raises concerns because pictures have to be uploaded to a third party...

Julien