[capableweb]

> I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up.

I'm also looking for something FOSS that can do basic face recognition + maybe even more, but last time I checked DigiKam's detection didn't work so well, or maybe I got spoiled by the detection in Google Photos. If you do give it a go, would be nice if you reported back on your experience :)

[wh33zle]

Not sure if it has been mentioned already but photoprism added face recognition a few releases ago and it is working well for me: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

The quality of this software is overall extremely good. It is a solo-developer as well so you might want to consider sponsoring them if you end up using it.

I am not affiliated, just a happy user :)

[thedanbob]

Seconding photoprism. The face recognition was pretty meh when it was first introduced, more of a gimmick than anything. But (I assume) a recent update pushed it into "wow, this is actually really good" territory.

[domh]

Thirding photoprism, got it hosted on a raspberry pi and made it accessible outside of my home via Tailscale. Seems to work fairly well... though I could probably make it faster with an SSD vs an HDD over USB.

[philsnow]

To photoprism users: do you know how well it handles identifying photos of kids over the span of years?

Google photos absolutely blows me away with its ~1% false positive rate (that is, given a photo, correctly identifying with kid(s) are in it) identifying each of my kids, nieces, and nephews. I don’t really know what its false negative rate (a false negative would be an uploaded photo of John but that doesn’t get tagged as having John in it) is, though.

I can search for each of my kids and see photos of them going back to their birth.

[wh33zle]

Don't have any data on that unfortunately.

[Cyph0n]

Photoprism is absolutely amazing. It was the quickest donation I’ve ever made to an OSS project.

I have a Photoprism instance running on my home server backed by a raidz1 ZFS pool (1st backup). Photos are periodically synced to a Backblaze bucket with versioning enabled (2nd backup). The source of most photos is an iOS device with iCloud enabled (main copy). I rely on PhotoSync to periodically sync from the iOS device to Photoprism.

[komali2]

FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)

https://damselfly.info

https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos

https://photoview.github.io/

I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...

[capableweb]

What I found in my previous search is that either they're really good at managing large collections of photos, or they're really good at doing various AI/recognition, but none of what I've found have been good at both.

Hence my interest in DigiKam as their management features for large collections is second to none.

[CWuestefeld]

Isn't that OK? You should be able to find some reasonable workflow around using the recognizer to tag the photo in its EXIF/IPTC metadata, and then load that into the organizer.

[capableweb]

It's not not OK :) Just not what I'm looking for, I spend enough time professionally with writing glue code, that I'm looking for a good out-of-the-box experience for something like this.

[specto]

I think immich will get there eventually

[mavhc]

How does the face recognition compare to https://www.photoprism.app/

[raffraffraff]

There's a difference between face detection and face recognition. Last I checked (less than a year ago) it could find faces, but was abysmal at recognizing them. I spend a few days on it, tweaking this and that, taking to the devs. It was crap.

[thedanbob]

It was pretty bad until just recently (a couple of months ago?) when I noticed it was incredibly improved, might want to try it again.