Standardizing Facial recognition data and the People tab in Lightroom
These features could be wildly popular if the major players like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, Nikon, and Canon, agree to work with either EXIF or IPTC to establish a “Standard” so that the metadata data can be shared just like file dimensions, size, GPS ,etc.
Currently, my experience is that it is proprietary to each company (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, etc.). After consumers spend time training the algorithms so the pictures are identified and stored in an index, when those files are shared, the facial recognition information is stripped out. In fact, with one company, when a shared album is created the index information is stripped out so that the recipient of that shared album is not able to benefit from all the work the first person did to identify all the people. It would be great if those indexes could be shared as well so they work across the different companies.
A major issue that may be preventing this from happening is Security and Privacy. There may be too great a concern that, if there was a standard and the information was freely shared, it would make it easier for that information to be used for nefarious purposes.
The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and human rights law, in particular Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
We can still dream though…
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