Is there any software that will do face recognition in photos?

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Solution 1

Digikam
(...will in the next release, very soon. there may be a beta/development version that does now. please read:)

"Aditya Bhatt added face detection and recognition to digiKam. He says: 'Because of my project, digiKam can now automatically detect faces in photographs. It allows you to tag these faces with People Tags, and can also identify unknown faces and automatically tag them. My work also introduced a wrapper library called libkface that can be used by other KDE apps. Right now everything works okay, but it needs a bit of usability and GUI work, as well as some tweaks to libkface. Hopefully my work will make it in time for the Christmas release, which will be 2.0!'"

this is taken from the latest google summer of code update on kde.org, here: http://dot.kde.org/2010/12/14/kdegoogle-summer-code-2010-part-1-2 alt text

Solution 2

Google photos, the successor to Picasa alt text may satisfy your demand. You just drag and drop the pictures folder to google photos (website - but it's actually native code via Chrome's Native Client) which automatically organizes them - you can go to Albums -> People to see all them categorized by recognized faces.

OpenCv(Open Source Computer Vision) also has the Linux versions.It is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision.Many software about recognition of photos also use opencv.Opencv can also solve your problem definitely.

The face recognition result:

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RusGraf

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Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

RusGraf almost 2 years

I would like to automate the process of tagging my photos with subjects' names.

Is there any software for Ubuntu that can perform face recognition on a local photo collection?
RusGraf over 13 years

Can you please explain how you were able to test out face recognition in Picasa 3.0 for Linux?
kit.yang over 13 years

Google has his own technology to recognize the red eye and faces.Picasa can manage photos by collecting photos with faces or red eye together automatically.But it also take some time to classify the photos.
RusGraf over 13 years

Are you able to tag photos using face recognition in Picasa for Linux?
oKtosiTe over 13 years

Last time I checked, the Linux version of Picasa (3.0 IIRC) did not do face recognition. It was the only reason for me to reboot to Windows.
kit.yang over 13 years

@oKtosiTe Ah,then I suggest you learning something about Opencv,The result of face recognition has been added to my answer.
Javier Rivera over 13 years

Picasa for linux is just a wine app with a couple of integration tricks. You can install it and them overwrite it files with the last windows release. Last time that I tested it worked nicely, and it did face tagging.
neves almost 12 years

Picasa isn't avaiable for linux anymore
Gabor about 8 years

I just tried it on my exported facebook photos and it did not find a single face on them. It seems like a research project was done 6 years ago and it is broken now.
Gabor about 8 years

Google photos (mentioned below) does, however, recognize people and correctly categorizes them by person.
jesjimher about 6 years

Google Photos does an awesome job recognizing faces, but unfortunately this information is not stored anywhere but on Google servers. As far as I know, there's no way to get this information and properly tag an image with it, like question asks.