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

Feature request: Would like to have the ability to add and edit Image Region Metadata, per the Metadata Working Group's Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata, Version 2.0, November 2010. Useful not only for face tagging, but feature tagging as well as comments, to do notes for developing or using, etc.

Hey George Woodward Great suggestion re pet recognition.

One of the most important aspects of Lightroom to me is the cataloging features, and recognition of faces plus whatever would allow me to import collections of photos and then quickly sort and tag them based on a previously set up recognition search. That would be FANTASTIC!

My photo collection is:
a) huge
b) not just about people
And I know that I am not alone!

Light room's importing and tagging features are excellent, but I have to face it, my photo tagging skills are on the lazy side and I find that my taggless old photos are almost lost to me because the pile is so huge. Even poorly implemented face recognition would be a great help,

I will take whatever Adobe can give me. But I agree with George Woodwards earlier suggestion that, pet recognition would be also be helpful to a lot of people.

But what if I we could find objects as well? I don't know the technical difficulty of this but Lightroom's library function would blow everybody else out of the water if it could perform multiple kinds of recognition. Not only faces and pets, but how about recognizing 1955 chevys, or the starship Enterprise, or Faberge' eggs?

Please Adobe, don't just wait for Google to figure this out, or better yet, work with them.

Great suggestion My photo collection is:
a) huge
b) not just about people
And I know that I am not alone!

My photo tagging skills are on the lazy side and I find that my old photos are almost lost to me because the pile is so huge. Even poorly implemented face recognition would be a huge help and I will take what I can get. I agree, pet recognition would be great

But what if I we could find objects as well? I don't know the technical difficulty of this but Lightroom's library function would blow everybody else out of the water if it could do any and all kinds of recognition. How about recognizing 1955 chevys, or the starship Enterprise, or Faberge' eggs? Please Adobe, don't just wait for Google to figure this out, or better yet, work with them.

I would like to see a facial recognition app or software that would help me identify people in scanned photos. I am a researcher doing genealogy work and I come across photos of people at different ages and in groups and it can take weeks or never to identify everyone or even the key players. I would like to be able to compare two photos to see if they are the same person.

I support this technology.

Guys, I noticed today that my Nikon D4 has face detection built in. When I scroll through the shots on my camera, I can rotate the front dial to move the zoom to each face. That is EXACTLY what I want in LR. I don't give a rip WHO the person is, I just want LR to be smart enough to find the "center of mass" of faces and zoom in there when I hit the space bar. In and out. Faces sharp? Yes/No Keep/Reject.

More apple product seem to be supporting the standard as I just read this from the exiftool website:

XMP apple_fi Tags

Face information tags written by the Apple iPhone 5 inside the mwg-rs RegionExtensions.

I suspect aperture to be using the same standard, though I have no mac to check it.

Note that since iphoto 9.4, Apple writes face tag information following the metadata working group standard, exactly like Picasa.

->https://sites.google.com/site/phoshar...

Whether or not a facial recognition feature would be useful obviously depends on the type of photography you do. I'm an amateur and the designated "family" photographer. I have thousands of pictures and even if not perfect it would be nice to be able to search them for a particular family member. I can't imagine going through them one by one and tagging them. On a recent vacation I took over 500 photos and I can't even imagine tagging them one by one.

Facial recognition is already in Photoshop Elements and I think it should be in any software that catalogs photos like LR4.

Facial rec would be great to find all photos of person in a large catalog. But do not restrict it to people like all the rest of the services. I shoot dog shows too. NOBODY currently recognizes animal faces. Everyone has pets!

And while you're at it, pattern recognition would provide a way to arrange a catalog artistically. I sometimes need a photo for a layout that has a certain type of blue in it, for example. The picture finding function on Google is crude, but based sort of on what I'm thinking.

Please add facial recognition to Lightroom. I am using Picasa for this now. It is much faster than manually tagging and surprisingly accurate.
Thank you.