GSoC/2020/StatusReports/KartikRamesh

Digikam : Face Management Workflow Improvements

DigiKam provides a great Facial Recognition Utility.It does a great job at detecting and recognizing faces. However the User Interface has room for improvement. This project aims to rectify issues in the current workflow, as well as introduce new features, to improve the user experience.

Mentors : Maik Qualmann, Gilles Caulier, Trung Dinh

Project Goals

This project aims to :

• Provide a Help Box to aid first time users of Facial Recognition.
• Provide notification about results of a Facial Recognition.
• Order People Sidebar, to show tags of Priority first.
• Order Face Item View, to display Unconfirmed Faces before Confirmed Faces.
• Provide new “Ignored” Category for Face Tags.
• Automatically Group Results in Unconfirmed Tag.
• Provide Functionality to reject Face Suggestions.
• Automatically add Icons to newly created face tags.