This comment seems mean, perhaps. But, Picasa's facial recognition was far better than Digikam's and I marveled at how Picasa could do so quickly, so long ago, what Digikam has failed to do (until now?).
I've been a Digikam user for a long time now, it's really useful for me, but the whole face-tagging system has been really poor for a long time IMO (eg all faces recognised in one image as same person; all tags recognised as being the last person manually tagged).
It's one thing I'd love to have donated to a bounty on as it saves a lot of time to have working tagging.
I wonder if there are plans to add other types of tagging, object recognition or what-have-you.
Yeah, the the comment does sound mean. Not to blame you, since you indicate that you understand this.
The digikam devs can be court at times, but that's mostly because many people show up with great expectations; mostly expectations of having someone else implement this or that. I shouldn't throw stones here really, I was one of those people a few years back.
The project is huge and the core dev team quite small [1], essentially just two people and the occasional drive-by. This is one of those projects that I'd really like to see someone figure out a stable revenue stream. I'd guess that a lot of this is not "interesting" programming, but rather tedious "clocking in, clocking out" footwork.
I think that comment is more "Picasa was amazing" than "Digikam is bad", and it's right, Picasa was amazing. Hopefully Digikam will reach those levels soon.
It was. I have searched long for a similar program (mainly face recognition) and couldn't find one. Github is full of POC for that, but nothing in a "complete" package.
I tried Digikam, but their face eh recognition discovered also lots of non-faces. The UI also was not fun to use. You click on a suggestion and it takes several seconds before you could type either the name, or pick one. All that with a relatively small collection (2TB).
