Ignore or not to ignore

Steve Ohio

I have a large quantity of photos that have large groups of people in them. I am currently working on facial recognition of just family and very close friends confirming faces. When I am going through suggested people in the face recognition area, some of the suggested people are not yet in my people library but I might want to add them at a later date. If I choose the “ignore this face suggestion”, will the program always ignore that face or will it only ignore it for the person I’m currently working on? In other words, will it suggest that face at a later date if I add that person to my library? If I think I may want to add the person it is suggesting at a later date, should I be using the “this is not*” option instead?

Andrey

Steve Ohio what “ignore this face suggestion” does is basically deletes this particular face on this particular image from the library, so it is no longer offered as suggestion to any one. So yes, if you think you might want to add this person to the library later, you should consider using “this is not” option instead. Or instead you can just assign this face to a new person right away.

Wayne

Andrey I use the “ignore this face suggestion” quite frequently but observe that the faces just keep turning back up, especially those of young children/babies. Am I misunderstanding the functionality?
Thanks,
Wayne

warenext

Andrey

Yeah, 3 years later but I thought I’d comment anyway. I’ve used “Ignore this face suggestion” for three instances: where the suggestion is not a face at all (foliage, flowers, wallpaper patterns, people’s hands!, etc.); where the suggestion is a face, but it’s a face on a doll, or in a painting, photograph or other art that’s visible in the photo; or where the face recognized is a stranger in the photo that I have no desire to or no way of identifying. “This is not” I’ve primarily used to correct my own mistakes when I’m off by one with the contextual menu of suggestions and have selected the wrong ID. 😉

Andrey

Wayne This sounds like a bug. As I explained, when you ignore faces, they get deleted from the databse, so they cannot show up anywhere anymore. Are you sure those are the same faces on same images, not just another instance from another image?

Wayne

Andrey I’ve been continuing my processing of 130,000+ photos and I am convenced that some of the faces that have been ignored return. Although, as you say, they may be from several similar pictures so I cannot be certain. Is there some way of noting an ignored image so I can tell if it has really returned?
Thanks,
Wayne

Andrey

Wayne Is there some way of noting an ignored image so I can tell if it has really returned?

Can’t imagine any simple way do that, no.

This functionality is quite old and relatively mature, so if there would be bugs, I would know already. I think it is safe to assume that those faces come from duplicates or near-duplicates. Until proven otherwise 🙂

Didier

For a particular person, i used to flag it as “Ignore this face suggestion”.
But I changed my mind and would like to name it.
So I tried to “Add new face at this location”, but it says “Could not find a new person’s face in the specified location”.
Then, my question is: How to reactivate this person’s recognition ?

Andrey

Didier Most likely you are not clicking into correct place (usuall where nose is). Or, there is already a face detected. The thing is, if face was detected there previously, it have to be detected again when adding manually.

Didier

I found a trick to solve the issue: I select the option “Assign faces to best match” and the ability to asign the previously ignored face came back !

Andrey

Didier I see there is some confusion here. This feature (“Assign faces to best match”) has nothing to do with additng new faces. It only works with already existing ones. Something strange is going on.

Didier

it was something strange indeed.
On the photo with 3 persons (let’s say A, B, and X (X is the one I used to ignore) I did the following:

clicked on B and said “it’s not…B”
assigned faces to best match
B and X became assignabled with red question marks
now X is known 😆

Andrey

warenext Yep, that is exactly how it was designed to be used.