P: Please add face recognition to Lightroom (ability to specify region metadata)

I have both Elements with face recognition and Lightroom 5 which I guess does not have it. Does anyone know if I tag faces in Elements first is there any way to update that data to Lightroom if I am referring to images that were previously imported?
For example if I exported a large group of images from Lightroom, then imported them into Elements, used facial recognition and then imported them back into Lightroom, would Lightroom catchup or just create a bunch of duplicates.

Region tagging and face recognition are both in Photoshop Elements. PSE's management of tags is lacking as I've written about elsewhere in this forum but the region tagging works pretty well and recognition too. It's inexplicable to me that LR hasn't done this yet. Time to beef of the LR development effort and provide a smooth path from PSE if Adobe wants to grow its customer base.

I agree. Facial recogniction would be a very valuable addition to lightroom.

Hello,

There have been a lot of talk about a face recognition option under the Abobe umbrella.
It looks that all request don't have a proper answer or solution besides an external plug-in for lightroom.
With that in mind, and looking to enhance the utility of Adobe applications I would like to know the reasons for ignoring those demands. Maybe is a technical or license problem, or maybe it have not yet catch the attention of Adobe, or it's a secret to be revealed in the future.
In any case someone has to come up with a proper explanation. It doesn't matter the in which direction it will come, but I, has a long time customer, deserve the right to know if this viable or not to Adobe.
Thank you

It increases the long-term value of every picture you take if you can identify things that may be forgotten in the future.

In this picture, who are the 2 players making the tackle? You can't see the names or numbers on their jerseys. But maybe one of those players is gonna get picked in the first round of the draft this year, making this picture desirable to news outlets. There are tons of situations, both professional and personal, in which image region metadata makes a picture more valuable (either financially or emotionally). Just because it doesn't benefit the kind of work you do doesn't mean it isn't valuable to other professional photographers.

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I agree. We need the ability to recognize faces in Lightroom or at least bring face tags over from Photoshop Elements.

I'm certainly hoping that Adobe implements region metadata tagging soon in LR. That said, they haven't fixed a problem in DW that I reported nearly two years ago, that worked quite fine for my many HTML files for dozens of years previously with lotsa tables that I readily edited with DW. In the past year, every time I try to edit an HTML file with a large table, DW becomes nonresponsive, on the fastest Mac that exists and with the most memory, when I try to edit HTML files in DW with lotsa tables. Again, I reported the problem over a year ago. Adobe responded saying that the problem was with OS X (Mavericks at the time, though I have upgraded to Yosemite the latest.) I'm no longer using DW for this. I am now converting my large tables to a MySQL database with PHP queries. That should not be necessary. I don't even need DW for my new regime. Sadly, I say. My HTML and so forth that worked really well for a dozen years can no longer be edited by DW; DW slows down so much to be unusable. And now it doesn't work at all. This is a reverse of Moore's Law. The more I want my solution to work, the less it does. Hence, my need to abandon the solutions (Adobe Dreamweaver and tables) that worked so well for me for a dozen years, but no longer. I have an entire website that has worked seamlessly with old-style tables that DW now just simply sends my high-end Mac into a catatonic state. As noted, I have relied on DW to prepare and support this site for a dozen or so years. However, DW no longer has any value to me. DW freezes when I try to edit an HTML file with a table of several hundred items, and hence is unusable. I could say more but I would be wasting my time. And Adobe has not been responsive to me. I have paid to the hilt to Adobe for CC in the past couple of years, and yet on this DW front it has been totally unusable to me since DW in unable to edit even the most basic HTML files with tables that I have been very successful and happily editing over many years. Sorry for the diatribe, but Adobe has not recognized the problem here.

- Rick

What I do (in keywords, not region metadata tags) is to create two separate keywords for the people with the same name. For example, one keyword would be "Wagner - John (born 1855)" and another keyword would be "Wagner - John (born 1880)". I would like to do the same in region metadata tags once they are implemented in Lightroom.

RIGHT! My Nikon D4 already has found faces in my shots. It's there. LR just has to read it. Then LR could let me 1:1 zoom on each face in the shot for quick inspection. That's all I want, Adobe.

Love both of these ideas.