Search for multiple faces

Josh

Hey, can you add a search for faces that would in the same photos? E.g., if 2 of my kids are in a photo together, I would like to see that instead of visually exploring their tagged face files hoping to find one with both of them in it.

So in the search, it would be Kid A and Kid B. It could include a list of all faces so you could search for any combination. Thanks.

Andrey

Josh thank you for suggesting use case. At this moment search functionality is further down on the roadmap. I believe that eventually it will be implemented, but not in the nearest releases, unfortunately. However, if community will insist on in increasing priority, it will definitely help to speed it up.

jrf

Andrey
I would upvote improved search functionality.

My use case:
Create a list of all images (in Finder preferably) including Person A and Person B, but not Person C, taken in or around Paris France between June and September of year 20xx.

I understand the complexity of creating robust search interfaces (I’ve written a few myself) so I get why it may be a lower priority.

… in the meantime, any way I could just read the Tonfotos database from an external routine and do the searches myself? What database tech does Tonfotos use anyway?

Cheers

Bobb

While not 1st priority for me, definetely provide the feature to filter… Kid A + Kid B + Kid C

When planning, also option to find photos with Kid A + Kid A (ie duplicates) to help if any faces mis tagged

An advanced feature is to zoom into a location area (map) and then apply a filter for Kid A + Kid B + Kid C
(easy to find photos of kids at beach)

or to just bulk tag photos in a foreign country as “holidays”

Andrey

jrf you are totally right, search interface is quite large task. That is why I like very much your idea to use system default search functionality for that purpose. I will need to make some research here, but I guess relying on OS search as both backend and UI can save a lot of effort.

I hope you understand why I might be hesitant opening up internal database structure and maintaining support for external applications, but there is better way actually. As to faces data, it stored not only in internal DB, this data is also duplicated in .ini files that are stored right next to photos. And those .ini files are just JSON’s with not that complicated strucutre. So if you will parse those .ini-files, you will get access to information about people on the photos.

jrf

Andrey Thank you. Yes, I discovered the .ini information and have created my own search/sort/filter functionality. Cheers.

webdawson

Hi,
first of all i really like your Software and think youre doing a great Job. I like the clean Interface and the face recognition is much better compared to other tools - so well done!
I am sure the future search will be awesome too. My main use case would be searching for photos with person x+y+z in it or photos with only persons x+y+z in it - but with no other people. I often need fotos where for example only my two siblings or only my parents are on it but no other people.

Thanks for your hard work.

Andrey

webdawson thank you for sharing your use case!

RGTucson

Would love a search feature! I was surprised not to find one.

Steve Ohio

As to the search function I give a thumbs up on future development, if possible.

In the meantime, I did the following as a work around. There is some work involved, but you can achieve the goal and only need to do it one time.

I wanted a list of all the photos in my library where my wife and I were together. I first went to the people tab and selected the one of us that had the highest number of occurrences. This insured all photos of the two of us together in my library would be picked up. I then “selected all” of the photos with this person and clicked the favorites button to move those to favorites album.

Next, I went to the favorites album and removed all the photos that did not have the two of us together.

Lastly, select all the remaining photos in the favorites album (these are the ones that have both together) and added a tag, such as “John and Sally”.

A “John and Sally” tag is now always in the “Albums” tab if I want to view those photos now or in the future. Only drawback to this approach is that you need to remember to add this tag to any pictures you add of the two of you to your library in the future.