Facial Recognition in old photos that have been scanned

Viking

I have several folders of JPG images that have been scanned from older photo hardcopies.
TonFotos doesn’t appear to recognize faces of these image types, even though I try the “create new face” command.

Andrey

Viking Yesterday I scanned something around 100 of 10×15cm prints to my own archive, and had no issues with recongizing faces there with Tonfotos. I think this is all down to qality of particular photos. If they are very blurry or have other type of issues, that may pose challenges for face recognitionb.

Viking

Resolved . . . . I just used “Add to personal album to . . . ” to assign some photos to people.

Viking

After some work, I assigned several “older” images that had been scanned to People.
Now I’ve discovered that digital photos from as early as 2002 are not being recognized by TonFotos. And, if I try to “create a new face” it fails, just like the older scanned photos.
I’m wondering if there is a limit to the number of “sub folders” that TonFotos can manage? I have 110 GB of photos, that are stored in 306 folders, under my main folder called “Picture Archive”, and there are 26,000 images collected in there.
Any Ideas?

Andrey

Viking I’m wondering if there is a limit to the number of “sub folders” that TonFotos can manage?

No, this all has to do with the quality of particular photos exclusively.

Viking

Also, I should mention that when using the File command “show all faces with unassigned faces” . . . I get the response “None”
I have used the “Ctrl i” command on several files in the old scanned images folders, but never in the 2002 - 2025 folders.

On the subfolders topic, I have folders as follows:

Jan-Mar - 2002
Spring - 2002
Summer - 2002
Fall - 2002
Holiday Break 2002
.
.
Jan-Mar - 2025
Spring - 2025
Summer - 2025
Fall - 2025
Holiday Break 2025

Andrey

Viking Also, I should mention that when using the File command “show all faces with unassigned faces” . . . I get the response “None”
I have used the “Ctrl i” command on several files in the old scanned images folders, but never in the 2002 - 2025 folders.

I am not sure what you are trying to say here. “Show all unassigned faces” does not work correctly? Are you shure that there actually are some unassigned face there? If yes, this is a bug and I would like to get more information about it in order to fix.

Viking

I apologize for not responding earlier - I have been out of town for a couple of weeks.
I would like to reinitiate a conversation with you, regarding my digital photo collection. As I stated earlier, I have 306 subfolders with photos, and though some are scanned images of older hardcopy folders, I have also discovered that I have many subfolders with digital images that were taken with digital cameras that have not been added to Tonfotos “People” collection after multiple (2 hour) scans and the software’s start up.
I would be happy to share some of the photos with you to help troubleshoot, why they do not indicate “face” representations, if you are willing.
Perhaps I have done something wrong in my ‘start up’ activities and would very much appreciate any recommendations you might have.

Viking

Also, I would be more than happy to do a Zoom session with you to show you the issues that I am experiencing, if you think that would help.

Andrey

Viking Ok, let us reainitiate and start from the beginnig. Can you please verify that faces recogntion is turned on? Here’s the relevant documentation page, please read: https://tonfotos.com/docs/library/setup/

Viking

Thank you, Andrey.
Yes, the “Recognize Faces” switch is turned on.

The Location I have selected is called “Picture Archive” and it has 25 SubFolders.

Viking

In the past two weeks, I created a new subfolder (under the main “Pictures Archive” folder) named “Fall - 2025”.
Interestingly, it is not recognizing faces in any of the photos that have people, clearly visible, even though the “i” icon has been selected. Also, in some cases, instead of small people icons displaying in the right panel, a map is displayed of the location where the photo was taken.

Andrey

Viking OK, can you please send me some problematic photos to support@tonfotos.com? With short description what is problematic about each image. I will check them at my PC to see if I have same result as you do.