Comments on: iPhoto face recognition, the verdict http://rickardandersson.com/iphoto-face-recognition-the-verdict The general consensus among clients is that they are your only client. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:33:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19719 By: Peter W http://rickardandersson.com/iphoto-face-recognition-the-verdict#comment-43389 Peter W Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:21:32 +0000 http://rickardandersson.com/?p=283#comment-43389 I can't say I have the same 25% and 80% results. I found it a lot of fun and a lot of frustration. The frustration seems due to face recognition being a black box. What is it doing and why can't I have more control over it? Does no or fuzzy faces help or hinder recognition? Please don't recognize anyone from this folder of photos. Please resubmit this photo for recognition. I discovered that by cropping a photo, it went from one face to all faces found. Really, manual recognition is not included in auto recognition? How silly is that? This seems like a case of Apple protecting users from the controls is the wrong approach for this software. I suspect from toying with it that is could do better and I would have better results if I could control it. A wide open lens can place a subject intentionally out of focus. Can recognition of that face be blocked? My kid in is the band. I don't know how the other 30 kids are and don't want to recognize them. I can’t say I have the same 25% and 80% results. I found it a lot of fun and a lot of frustration. The frustration seems due to face recognition being a black box. What is it doing and why can’t I have more control over it? Does no or fuzzy faces help or hinder recognition? Please don’t recognize anyone from this folder of photos. Please resubmit this photo for recognition. I discovered that by cropping a photo, it went from one face to all faces found. Really, manual recognition is not included in auto recognition? How silly is that?

This seems like a case of Apple protecting users from the controls is the wrong approach for this software. I suspect from toying with it that is could do better and I would have better results if I could control it. A wide open lens can place a subject intentionally out of focus. Can recognition of that face be blocked? My kid in is the band. I don’t know how the other 30 kids are and don’t want to recognize them.

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