A few short suggestions for People View that I hope others can get behind: Play/Pause for facial recognition: Lightroom seems to use a lot of CPU power and memory when it's open. I can't determine what it is doing with all those resources other than additional facial recognition matching. It would be nice to have the ability to pause this process to save system resources. It would also be nice to have a progress feature, so if all images have a suggestion then it would stop processing for example. Expand People Tags: Can you please add aliasing support for People tags? I tag folks on Facebook and Instagram (and others likely use Twitter). It would be great to have a place to associate their FB, Insta, and Twitter handles. Also, if I'm forgetting someone's name, the ability to look them up and back track to the face would be nice. Just means less cross referencing.

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People View -- Suggestions: Run/Pause, Expand People Tags to include Social Media

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October 28, 2019
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A few short suggestions for People View that I hope others can get behind:

Play/Pause for facial recognition: Lightroom seems to use a lot of CPU power and memory when it's open. I can't determine what it is doing with all those resources other than additional facial recognition matching. It would be nice to have the ability to pause this process to save system resources. It would also be nice to have a progress feature, so if all images have a suggestion then it would stop processing for example.

Expand People Tags: Can you please add aliasing support for People tags? I tag folks on Facebook and Instagram (and others likely use Twitter). It would be great to have a place to associate their FB, Insta, and Twitter handles. Also, if I'm forgetting someone's name, the ability to look them up and back track to the face would be nice. Just means less cross referencing.

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johnrellis

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"I have 16,500 photos ... the Task Manager shows Lightroom taking up 80% or more of RAM and about 30% of CPU chugging away for days. ... I've left Lightroom open to do recognition suggestions for over a week at a time"

When paused, face detection consumes no background CPU. And indexing 16K photos for face detection wouldn't take more than 5 - 10 hours. So this background activity isn't caused by a normally operating face detection.

Something is misbehaving in your LR configuration. In the identity-plate dropdown menu, is Sync With Lightroom also paused? That has been known to run away occasionally in the background.

If your LR were building previews from a very large import, that would also complete overnight, and it would show up in the progress bar in the upper-left corner.

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johnrellis

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"It is not detection that I wish to stop. It appears to continuously processes the images to create the suggested names in People view, even after the Face Dectection boxes are present on the images."

The Face Detection pause button stops both the identification of face rectangles and the suggested person names for those rectangles.

What are the detailed symptoms you're seeing that indicates it's not happening in your configuration?

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I have 16,500 photos with more than 30,000 identified faces and an additional 8,000 unidentified. There are not suggestions for every face and there are clear (direct-on, well lit, face not obscured) examples of people who have plenty (100+) identified photos. Meanwhile the Task Manager shows Lightroom taking up 80% or more of RAM and about 30% of CPU chugging away for days. I would like an estimate for how long that would go on if left unattended. I've left Lightroom open to do recognition suggestions for over a week at a time and seen little/no progress and other times it seems very quick to identify folks.

johnrellis

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You can pause the background face recognition by clicking on the identity plate in the upper-left corner:

For your other suggestions, Adobe wants all product suggestions posted in the official feedback forum:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightroom.

Product developers read everything posted there, but rarely participate here, which is primarily a user-to-user forum.

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It is not detection that I wish to stop. It appears to continuously processes the images to create the suggested names in People view, even after the Face Dectection boxes are present on the images.

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