7.0 promised AVIF.
7.2 said next time
7.3 said nothing
7.4 nothing
Any idea what is going on?
I've applied people tags to thousands of photos but those people tags do not translate into face tags. E.g., a hundred photos are selected and the tag "Jim" is added to People. Face recognition prompts me "Who is this?" It would seem there should be a simple way of telling Digikam To use the people tag as the face tag.
The problem is that people who are people tagged keep showing up as incorrect suggestions during face recognition. So I get 50 "Jim" people tagged photos as suggestions for "Jane's" face tags.
Does that make sense?
Source code from git is now tagged to v7.4.0. Packaging is complete and ready to be published.
When finding duplicates Digikam chooses a reference photo based on what criteria? Often, the reference photo is a lower quality or smaller sized image. This is a problem when you want to just hit the "delete all" button because it will keep the lower quality reference image and delete the better quality images.
Is there something I'm missing?
Hi everyone !
I installed Digikam to remove duplicate photos from my computer. I imported photo albums, I let it create fingerprints. This took some time ...
And yet after one night of running, Find dupplicates load bar is still stuck at 0%.
I understand this is a long process but is it normal ?
I'm using version 4:7.1.0-2 with Debian.
digiKam is compiled for Intel computer only for the moment, Apple Silicon architecture is planed for the future using universal bundling. digiKam is fully compatible with the Apple Rosetta 2 emulator.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444592
I'll head over to bugs.kde.org if it turns out that this is a bug - but honestly, I think I must be "doing it wrong" because the face recognition feature simply cannot be as useless as it seems to be. First off, here's what I've done (on the latest 6.x version and the latest 7.x version):
- Add a few albums that contain a decent number of images of family and friends (just under 2000 photos)
- Run "Detect faces"
- Spend hours tagging people I know. Over 60 different people are tagged. All are tagged at least twice, but as the people get closer in my social circle, some (eg: my wife) are tagged over 100 times.
- Go into Tools > Maintenance > Detect faces. (I did this bunch of times, with every conceivable combination of options)
- Use the "recognize faces" feature. (I tried moving the Face accuracy from low to high, checked and unchecked YOLO v3)
After spending a few hours on it at this point, it hasn't managed to recognize a single person. I don't get any errors, but basically nothing shows up in "Unconfirmed". I'd like to mention a weird behavior that someone else mentioned - when I start correcting the faces in "Unknown", it always prompts me with the last name I entered. For example, I correctly tag my sister (female, black hair, glasses) and then I click on her husband (male, ginger hair, balding, no glasses) and it prompts me with her name. Aside from mostly prompting with 'the last name', it has literally never correctly suggested a person. It has on occasion prompted me with a wildly inaccurate guess (a large bald man suggested for some girl).
It can't be this bad, or there'd be a lot of noise about it on forums. So I must be doing something wrong. But what? How does the application give me so much scope to screw this up, without giving me a single clue as to what I'm screw up?
EDIT: Clarification on my use of "Face Accuracy". I have not yet tested ever 1% increment between 0% and 100%, but what I have found is that it goes from "trash" to "nothing". (Updated) Even below 70%, a blind cat with a dart board would be about as good. The suggestions for each person are laughably bad. Lots of random faces that look nothing like them, or even like the other suggestions. The only thing they have in common is that they 'have faces' ...except some suggestions aren't even faces.
Questions:
- What does "Face Accuracy" actually affect? Detection? Recognition? Both?
- When do I need to run "Tools > Maintenanc
Next digiKam 7.4.0 release plan is published. If all is fine with Continuous Integration, new version will be available for Christmas...
Hello,
I've just run find duplicates over my photo mess and its done a great job.
However, its taken 8+ hours. If I close digikam will I have to run the scan again?
I'm using it on ubuntu, incase that makes a difference.
TIA.
Is there some way to enable a set of filters by default in digiKam? I'd like to be able to hide all images that are reject flagged imaged or tagged 'hidden by default' unless I explicitly show them.
Darktable 3.6.1
OS: Manjaro Linux 21.2.0
Digikam 7.3.0
OK, so Digikam is supposed to allow you to edit RAW files using Darktable. However, after an update a while back (I believe it was to Darktable 3.5), Digikam is no longer able to import the file back. The error message simply says "Error to import RAW image with DarkTable".
At first I thought it was a problem that Digikam needed an update to follow suit, but it's been almost a year and the problem still persists.
I've been trying to find solutions on various forums but it doesn't seem to be a very well known issue. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Edited to include system info
I scanned a ton of pictures and I want to set the creation date to the month and year the picture was actually taken (since there is already a scanned date field in exif).
When I select multiple pictures and open the metadata editor, I can only edit fields one picture at a time. Is there a way to change the date, location, etc of multiple files at the same time and save those in the file's metadata for other applications to use?
Thanks people :)
I'm on Arch Linux and I used to use digiKam in the past, but now when I open it it says it can't find the SQLite database it needs and wants me to find one that's already somewhere in the file system, probably because I deleted something in the past. I'd like to "reset" digiKam so that it doesn't ask for an existing database anymore so that it will instead do the initial configuration as if I was using digiKam for the very first time. I can't find a proper way to do this on the internet, so can anybody help me?
I am interested in preserving photo data in a way that can be read 100 years from now. I can look at a real photo 100 years old. So why not digital data for 100 years. I think having metadata in a separate XML-based XMP file, which is a simple ASCII text file, will have a good chance of being readable 100 years from now. I doubt the built in data (EXIF, etc) will have as good a chance of being readable. So one of my requirements for a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) is that it reliably create and update external XMP files. Digikam is one of the vanishingly rare programs which actually can do that, though you have to set it up in the configuration file. On top of that , it is open source and free. One of the advantages of separate XMP sidecar files is that, if you lose or don't have the digikam database, you can just open all the files in a new install of digikam, and it will automatically read in all the metadata from the sidecar files, and Voila!, your database is repopulated. I can conceive that 100 years from now, any programmer could create a program to retrieve the XML-formatted data from the XMP files, and could therefore easily recreate the metadata. The metadata includes such information as the image title, description, people tags, dates, locations, etc, etc.
I'm considering migrating from Windows to Linux, but before I do that I am trying out some Linux alternatives for my favorite Windows programs.
One of these is ACDsee Pro, for which digiKam seems like a pretty good alternative.
However when I view my image library in digiKam I notice that all the IPTC keywords that I added to GIF and PNG files are not there anymore. Only the keywords that I added to JPEG files are there.
If I view these GIFs and PNG files in Photoshop I also see that these tags are not there.
But in ACDSee they are!
I always thought that the IPTC metadata would be embedded into the file itself so I would not be locked into a certain app/database, but apparently this is not the case.
Does anyone here know digiKam and know how I could import this information from the ACDSee database into digiKam? Or some other way to store these keywords into GIFs and PNGs so that I can use these in digiKam as well?
I know this is a very specific question and this is probably not the correct place to ask it, but I am not sure where else I could ask.
For more details, see announcement on digikam.org:
https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-07-12-7.3.0_release_announcement/
I read that digikam can recognize animal faces too, but it doestn show any animals in the "people" section when I try to detect faces. Can anybody help?
digiKam 7.4.0 tarball and bundles are available for download:
https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/7.4.0/
