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

hey Adobe, could you please provide us out of the box facial recognition, this is a must have feature for LR.

I agree with Kent

I agree. We need facial recognition. I have hundreds of family photos many of which have no tags. If you don't want to put facial recognition into LR then give us some way to import tags from an application that already has facial recognition.

It does not need learning. All faces are classified/grouped by degree of similarity. So you just need to type the name once for each group of faces. It can be much more efficient than a human.

I am trying to identify the names in family history photographs that are 120 -90 years old. We have some names and the ability to check for family characteristics would help

I also do weddings and tagging guests would never be something that would be time efficient, even if it meant training the software. What would be USEFUL is during the pruning process to have LR know >where< the faces are but not >who< they are. I don't care >who< they are.

So what's useful for that? Imagine a 27" monitor (I have one) that could show you a grid of all of the faces in a group photo. You could instantly see both the composition (wide shot on right) and grid of faces on the left and make very, very quick judgements about sharpness and facial expressions. So much time is burned zooming in and panning around each shot, remembering which one is better than the rest...

Also, imagine if Lightroom's Auto Exposure could use the faces to do intelligent image exposure adjustments... Currently, a brighter background or a spotlight totally throws the immature software algorithm for a loop. 1% of the time these auto-correction features work. Recognizing faces and treating them correctly in the develop mode (auto correction) plus saving time on showing you faces in Library mode while you cull would save HOURS and HOURS per job.

That's why Adobe should work on this. Not for searching your catalog. For speed and intelligently assisting me.

I'm not here to shoot down the request. If it is implemented in the end, then it's good. I'm just here in hope that someone can educate me what is the benefit of Facial recognition besides "oh, I want to pull out all the photo of uncle Bob".
I do wedding. Do you guys keep track of all the guess name? So the couple will come to you and say "We want the photo of us and Uncle bob". And during the ceremony you keep track of all the guest names so you can tag it in later?
Regional tagging is understandable. I can see the advantages of it.

there: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

There is already feature request for shape/color detection algorithm, you can go and vote for it : http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
It is already implemented in photoshop element, still waiting for LR to get it :(

being ironic : if you do your keywording properly you shouldn't need that function either , should you 😉

It is already done