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October 2, 2023
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P: Hybrid sort order for labeling faces

  • October 2, 2023
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The Sort Unnamed By: option underneath the People module has decent options, but a hybrid between the first two options (Suggested Name and Filmstrip Order) would be ideal. The suggested name option often randomly adds incorrect suggestions in the middle of a large series of correct suggestions, making it much more difficult to select all of the correct suggestions for a person in a group. The filmstrip order is quite handy for selecting all of the images of a series of photos of a single subject but is not good at all for sequences with multiple subjects. A hybrid of the two would fix the issues with both. As the algorithm determines a confidence level matching a face to a person label, you could truncate that confidence level or round it to a certain threshold and then order the resulting images within that confidence interval based on the filmstrip order. For example, if 100 faces within a large set had a confidence level between 98.0 and 98.99 for a particular person's name, the truncated 98 confidence level group of those images should then be sorted by filmstrip order, which would result in far fewer random faces popping up within a large group of an individual's photos, and those random incorrect faces would more likely be grouped together at one end or the other of the correct person's sequence (with the exception of something like a series of photos of twins together).

 

Another benefit of sorting by a combination of suggested name and filmstrip order would be it would be much easier to see all of the sequential photos of a particular person's face in order to more easily spot misidentified photos at a glance. For example, if you're indentifying faces of a person across multiple days and multiple outfits, instead of your eye needing to evaluate multiple different shots of a person across several lines of faces, all of the photos with a single outfit/hairstyle/etc. would be grouped in order, and it would be much easier to spot a photo of someone else mixed into the bunch at a brief glance.