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

Can we try some proper names for different UI elements? That might help us all be on the same page. At the top of the People view we have Named People then below we have Unnamed People. In the Single Person view, we have the Confirmed section at the top and then the Similar section. Where are you looking? Or screenshots would help greatly.

Victoria, I think you are confusing the guess window and the confirmed window. I've got the same as David. In the confirmed panel, a single stack for each of 4 persons (with a high number of hits inside), then 15 stacks of one person (i.e. same person and same name on stack) with a low numer of hits inside each. I've tried to drag one stack on top of the other for this same name, accepting to 'rename' in the process (though it is a rename to the same name), but to no avail. Do you have any tip for this problem?

Yes, I feel a bit duped with this upgrade. $99 to get Facial recognition (my only reason for the upgrade), which is a buggy test version that I've had to disable. Great for Adobe's profits, not so good for customers.

Just upgraded from LR4 to LR6(CC). I've been playing with the facial recognition feature, and I have many of the same comments as above. Wow, I'm surprised Adobe released it in this state. The feature is at best at alpha quality. I guess I'll wait for the next version to be released before using this feature. I was hoping to use this feature for tagging people. I'll have to just go back to doing it manually. 😞 Very unfortunate. I kind of want my money back. LR4 was working fine for me.

I see that i'm not alone with this problem.
Hope Adobe can hear us and add new functionnalityies for the next update (or upgrade) :

- Re-indexing
- add granularity level of faces recognition (décrassé the 30% or 40% of missing faces)

Yes, we need the possibility to re-index (or for LR6 to "re-scan") all selected photographs for faces that have not already been indexed.

Same as many, somehow a few k of indexed faces just "disappeared" for now reason, and cannot go photo by photo and manually select the face. The capability of the software is there, Adobe just need to unblock it.

I fully agree with you. This feature have to be considered as a beta, it miss too many faces and even a lot of obvious faces that a simple compact camera can detect. Other software such as Picasa, iPhoto or Aperture (the software i used before LR6 and which has not evolved for 2 years) have a far more success ratio !

I absolutely love this feature but rescanning for faces MUST be possible. It is so basic.
I should be able to rescan the entire catalog or just select a few photos and have LR scan only those whether they have been previously scanned or not.

With Picasa, I gave it a photo of my adult daughter and it looked in my 30,000 photos at that time and found a baby picture of that same daughter and matched them. Maybe an accident but there were other baby pictures and other adults. It is possible. Adobe just released the feature prematurely. I called customer service and the technician basically agreed that it is a work in process.

I've just been doing some work in Google Picasa this morning - and it really hit home just how good Google's product is (especially for a free consumer app) and how bad Adobe's implementation is. Google have an amazingly good hit rate, it's super easy & fast to remove false matches and the process has little impact on other software features when using the program. Adobe really need to the their stuff together.