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

I don't think face recognition is necessary. I would probably use a function which tags all images with faces in it.

But I would prefer if AutoTone would produce better results or could be configured to my liking. This and some other wishes from this forum should cause much less work that detection of persons.

In my opinion face recognition is one of the less needed features in LR.

I would use face recognition to identify faces in very old photographs dating back to 1870. I am restoring historical photographs and only a few people are identified and it would help to know to which family the unidentified are connected with. Processing power would only be used on request and not slow down most processing.

I don't think that face recognition is very important at all. Maybe because I don't have that many faces that need recognising! The process of entering keywords in LR suits me fine and I don't think I would want processing power to be wasted trying to recognise people in my photos when I can provide their names in a jiffy.

Yeah, well, my original request to support Image Region Metadata, a standard to which Adobe was a major contributor but has not implemented. However, other forum czars merged my post into this thread, which advocates face tags. I don't agree to the merger, as they are entirely separate topics.

And so I see 3 separate topics here: (1) supporting Image Region Metadata tagging; (2) supporting face tags (which would best be implemented via Image Region Metadata tagging); and (3) face recognition (an entirely separate topic, and one that is prone to substantial erroneous results.)

Let's get the first working and then figure out the rest!

I really do not appreciate that my original request for Adobe to support Image Region Metadata in Lightroom (which Adobe co-authored in the spec) to be linked to face tagging much less face recognition.

It has been since Version 2 that I've suggested adding facial recognition tags. Some responders said this "is not a professional need" but I strongly disagree. PLEASE include this in the coming LightRoom 5 release.

Please develop family tree face tagging

Note that it is important for the algorithm to be able to handle People with exact same name but who are not the same persons.
I have 2 friends with the exact same name and only picasa seem to handle it

Should be merged to another topic. Please reference the new topic here: LIGHTROOM: Image Region Metadata support

I've wrote a Lightroom plugin to import face tags from Picasa into keywords.
You can download it at http://code.google.com/p/lr-picasafac...
I still adding functionnality, but it works fine.