P: Allow facial recognition feature to re-index a folder/collection

Re-running face detection, globally and at the folder and selected photo(s) level, has to be a priority for the NEXT update. The "hit rate" for simply detecting faces in a photo (not identifying, just detecting that a face is there) is incredibly low. I'm seeing less than 50% success rate in detecting faces. Recognizing who is in each photo isn't performing well either, but failing to detect the only face in a portrait photo is a pretty big bug.

The feature to re-index faces is a must.

This function is quite a must

David, it only stacks them if it's really pretty sure it's the same person. This means that you can generally name the stack without having to look inside.

If it bunched all of the guesses together, half of them would be wrong, but if you want to see that view, double click on a photo of your son and confirm them in the Similar section of the Person view. That view is a lot more relaxed about suggestions.

Also, Lightroom found almost 30,000 faces in my photos. But it is terrible at grouping the faces together. I have many, many groups of my son in stacks of 4 or 5 photos, instead of 1 stack of hundreds of photos. Now that I have named a bunch of photos, perhaps reindexing would allow Lightroom to more intelligently create larger groups of photos of the same person?

With a large catalog 200K+ images as I have this is an essential. Additionally we need some control over the granularity over the face detection - at the moment FR is missing 30-40% of faces. We need to be able to say 'try again' and search harder!

Also re-indexing needs to be in two flavours - start from scratch on the selected images and secondly and more importantly search for faces not previously found - without removing those previously found and labelled.

Yes, this is a function that should be available. Had tagging completed on a catalog with over 30k images in LR5 and upgraded. Went through tagging with facial recognition and was nearly done (5k left) and lost all tags but a few faces. Now, I've lost all person tags, even the ones I had in LR5.

Same for me. I need this function !!

I am in total agreement with this request.

Please enable this, as the current functionality appears to be in a "beta" stage & is limited at the moment.