Comment by noduerme
5 years ago
As someone who's never used cloud-based photo browsers... I always assumed the facial recognition aspect was primarily for social media apps that try to tag known faces from a user's friends group, to put it in those people's news feeds or something. It's one reason I avoid being photographed and ask people not to tag my name to my face if they do post a photo I'm in. I'm wondering, what's the utility of facial recognition if you're storing/sharing photos on a service that has no database of known faces? Or is this just for image editing or red eye removal or something?
[edit] as I'm rethinking it, would this just be for searching your own images for a particular person...?
> as I'm rethinking it, would this just be for searching your own images for a particular person...?
My Synology NAS has face recognition and it is wonderful even if (actually: especially since) it has no pre-existing database and doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) share its database.
For someone like me who manages family photos for the entire family but isn't to good at recognizing faces it is just brilliant.
I agree, Moments isn't a bad piece of software, especially being able to group/combine the same person, that is tagged as a different person. My newborn was like 50 different people when I first uploaded our pics, merging them together was as easy as a few clicks.
I wonder if it's a good idea to use Synology as onsite, and ente as 123 backup solution?
It's so incredibly useful to be able to bring up pictures but you don't remember the exact time or date that you took it.
Google photos has come in so clutch when you're searching through 50k photos.
To be able to categorize by person, ex: "list all photos of Jim".
This would be a useful feature for myself, I am also loathe to tag faces on social media with all that entails; but I find myself approaching a friends birthday or other events wishing I could search my images for everything that included them from the past year
I use Google Photos extensively for this feature, it categorizes pictures of my children as they are growing up, neatly under their name. So anytime I want to see pics of my kids, I just click on their name, and I have their entire visual timeline.
Google Photos, also, time to time, makes a slideshow video of my kids pictures, labeled as "They grow so fast" etc, its really amazing.