It's a “versionġ” application, so should be given time to mature before one can Only natural that the UI will be a bit rough. I should point out two very important caveats to my complaints above:ġ) face recognition is new to Picasa (and to the world), so it's Having promised myself a dozen different times that “I'll stop after I worked on the faces all day today, despite It sucked me in like nothing else has since I You visited a mode where you could indicate who it was. Said “no, not this person either”, until you got fed up enough with it that What it seems best for, and you'd see the same faces over and over as you ![]() So, it becomes a pattern of jumping around modes to use each mode for Person”, but they make it very difficult to say “these faces Some modes make it very easy to say “these faces are/aren't this See such a face while looking at suggestions for one person, the best youĬan do is indicate “not this person”, and so you're guaranteed to see theįace again (and again and again) until you come across the face in the mode Otherwise-more-useful modes don't offer that important feature, so if you some random stranger in the background of a shot), but other Of the same few people, but it offers no way to group the results so youĬan indicate “these 20 faces are all such-and-such” you actually have toĪnother mode might allow you to indicate that a face should be ignored In one mode you can easily group photos so that the faces are all Vice-versa, each with their pros and cons. The application UI offers severalĭifferent ways to approach the task of assigning names to faces and To chew on the 20,000 photos I threw it at, after which it grouped all theįaces by person (as best it could figure), letting me ascribe names to the It took about a day and a half of crunching in the background for Picasa Recognition of who the face might be, and worst of all, a decidedly randomĪpproach to remembering what faces I've said belong to whom. ![]() Movie), the end result was disappointing because of a clumsy UI, poor I pointed Picasa at the 20,000 photos in my archive from this year (maybeġ00,000 faces?) and there were no false positives, unless you don't countīut like a modern Star Wars film (lots of cool effects, but no plot orĪcting or anything else that might contribute to making a good Where in the photo faces are to be found, and do so with great precision. Google's Picasa desktop photo application includes the very coolįeature of face recognition. I've just wasted the last two days on something more fun (and moreįrustrating) than any video game – Google's Picasa photo app “face recognition” NOTE: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.
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