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patrickb36994329
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May 17, 2019
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Faces not being recognized after removal from a person

  • May 17, 2019
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Hi,

I removed some faces from a person (my brothers face from my person) several weeks ago. Unfortunately he isn't recognized as a face anymore on any of these pictures. There is no unknown face or anything, it just looks like Lightroom doesn't think he has a face anymore.

I thought maybe the pictures will be re-scanned after some time, but nothing happened since then. Did I accidentally tell Lightroom to not scan these pictures anymore? Or is there a possibility to reinitiate the scan?

I don't have any other problems with the face recognition (apart from Lightroom grouping wildly different faces together), new pictures are scanned within a short time. Only these old ones where I removed a face are not scanned again.

Best regards!

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    selondon
    Community Expert
    selondonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 5, 2019

    Hi Patrick,

    I assume all other faces in People View are displaying normally?

    You also may be able to get further help on the following forum, which is monitored by the engineers (this is mainly a user to user forum):

    Lightroom Desktop | Photoshop Family Customer Community

    selondon
    Community Expert
    selondonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 18, 2019

    You can add a name to a face, that does not have one, in Lightroom (Cloud Based) Desktop's Keyword panel.

    Select on the square overlay and type the name.

    patrickb36994329
    patrickb36994329Author
    Participating Frequently
    May 20, 2019

    Hi selondon,

    the problem is, the face isn't recognized as a face anymore. When I removed the face from a person, it got completely removed. The square overlay is completely gone for this face!

    selondon
    Community Expert
    selondonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 20, 2019

    Hi Patrick,

    Just to confirm that when you are in the Keyword Panel and hover on the face, no box appears?

    I didn’t think the boxes could be deleted in the cloud based Lightroom Desktop.

    Which release/version of Lightroom are you using by the way?

    melissapiccone
    Community Expert
    melissapicconeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 17, 2019

    Have you tried drawing a box on the face and naming it?

    Find and organize photos of people in the People View

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    patrickb36994329
    patrickb36994329Author
    Participating Frequently
    May 20, 2019

    It is not possible for me to 'draw boxes' on people.

    Even if it would be possible, searching through all my pictures for a person and manually drawing boxes on them isn't exactly what I would expect from an "automated face regognition"..

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