Local Digital Photo Organization with Face Recognition?
March 30, 2019 5:26 PM Subscribe
I have recently acquired a box full of family photos that go back several generations, and would like to scan them in and keep track of who is in them. My dream for this project is a piece of software that can take a folder of images and apply some facial recognition to them (even if it's not 100% perfect) and then let me apply identifying tags on a per-photo basis so that I can, for example, show all photos of my great-grandmother, or all photos of people with a particular last name. If it doesn't recognize the face, I would be able to identify it manually. Does such a piece of software exist? Windows 10 would be preferred, though I do have access to a Mac if that's the only option.
I use Google Photos for this pretty much.
posted by clseace at 6:18 PM on March 30, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by clseace at 6:18 PM on March 30, 2019 [2 favorites]
I switched from iPhone to an Android device recently and in the process have been consolidating my photos into Google Photos, and this tool (the descendant of Picasa, if I understand correctly) does a decent enough job of this. If you set your scanned photos folder to sync to a Google photos and select the option to sync high quality rather than original quality you'll get unlimited photo storage as a bonus. It's pretty damn impressive, correctly grouping photos of my daughter between the ages of 1 and 21 from all kinds of weird angles, blurry shots, or partial faces, for example.
posted by drlith at 6:20 PM on March 30, 2019
posted by drlith at 6:20 PM on March 30, 2019
The headline of your question says "local"? Is it important that the facial recognition take place on your computer and not in the cloud?
posted by Winnie the Proust at 6:25 PM on March 30, 2019
posted by Winnie the Proust at 6:25 PM on March 30, 2019
Response by poster: @winnie the proust I would prefer that these photos not be uploaded to someone else's servers, and would prefer a piece of desktop software over a website or an app, if possible. It's not an absolute dealbreaker, but definitely would prefer it be "local" in that sense.
posted by softlord at 7:09 PM on March 30, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by softlord at 7:09 PM on March 30, 2019 [3 favorites]
Adobe Lightroom Classic does what you want.
posted by jonathanhughes at 7:15 PM on March 30, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by jonathanhughes at 7:15 PM on March 30, 2019 [1 favorite]
Ownphotos appears to be one of the very few self-hosted options with any kind of facial-recognition, but it also sounds like it might require some expertise or handholding to get set up. Runs locally (or otherwise) under Django (Python).
posted by rhizome at 9:03 PM on March 30, 2019
posted by rhizome at 9:03 PM on March 30, 2019
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Cons:
- it's discontinued so you'll have to find an unofficial upload
Pros:
- good auto-facial recognition/grouping
- you can correct faces individually or as a group
- you can manually tag faces as well
- creates a searchable People directory where you can see all the recognized people in your photographs
- has a nifty page that shows all untagged faces
posted by zima_lengneui at 6:02 PM on March 30, 2019 [1 favorite]