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

Taking wedding photos. That is a huge help, unless you know every guest each time you do the job. 🙂

I'm hoping so much it's "face recognition" and not full blown "facial feature discrimination recognition".... I don't care if the person is Chris or Steve or Mary. I just want LR to know where the faces are and 1) zoom in intelligently on each face for proper analysis and 2) maybe auto corrections with care for skin tones in the image. Something intelligent. It's about time.

Please separate the requests into two different ones: (1) Facial recognition; (2) region metadata tagging.

Rumor has it Lr5 will have face recognition (certainly Adobe has been working on it, since there are tell-tale signs in the code). Whether they also will expose general regional tagging, - dunno...

Disclaimer: it could be face recognition won't be done for Lr5 final either, I really don't know... (so don't spread rumor ;-})

One with 3 or more stars, I think.

By the way, what is a "Promoted Response" in this forum?

Unfortunately, the "editors" of this forum have combined two feature requests into one thread that are entirely different.

One is facial recognition across different photos.

The other is the ability to specify region metadata to tag regions of photos with metadata, like photo tagging on Facebook. This is not just for face tagging, though! I want to tag buildings, national monuments, bridges, and so on.

I and others submitted the latter request, which I still believe to be a prerequisite to the former. Adobe was a direct party to the regional metadata tagging standard, but as far as I can tell have not implemented it in any of their products. That's what I want!

All the best,
- Rick

Having a library of 60,000+ photos that are being brought into Lightroom in bulk, it would be beneficial to have facial recognition. New users with a large library do not have the luxury of adding tags as photos are taken as that point has already passed.

So whether a professional or an amateur with an extensive collection of photos, making the process of adding and quickly tagging photos easier would seem to be a positive selling point. Especially since most other software including i-Photo, Picasa, Aperture, etc. have this feature. Even Photoshop Elements has a rudimentary facial recognition feature.

I don't think I would use facial recognition in Lightroom and not sure how others using it for professional use would use it either.
I can see how someone using Lightroom for keeping track of family pictures or something could use it.

A professionals I would assume that you are tagging your images with the names of the models or clients at the time and may or not photograph them again, and if you do your workflow would likely have you tagging them appropriately at that time too. So when would you use it really?

What might be useful is a pattern or shape algorithm that you could select say a "Bridge" in an image and then it use that as criteria for going out and finding other bridge pictures in a 'batch background mode' and doing the same for other things like wolves, birds, bears, towers, or other "General" objects.. without getting down to this bird vs. that bird detail.

Christopher

It is very hazardous to say that developing one functionality is faster than another one.
Actually if they are using face detection API it may even be just a question of UI, which could be much simpler than tuning the Auto tone to give better results in all conditions.
LR is both a DAM and raw developer, so both aspect need to be enhanced. If we leave the whole DAM aspect a side then it may be better to just use Camera raw converter and bridge.
Regards