#Digikam facial recognition code

Also restored the functionality if the whole birth date dialog, which was broken due to the KF5/Qt5 port.

Bugfix (#373263): KPA crashed when editing a birth date.

Bugfix: Fixed areas not drawn when a photo was viewed after a video in the Annotation Dialog.

Enhancement (Bug# 370373): Made writing index.xml deterministic, so that diffing it produces minimal changes.

We think that this offers a nice and fast way to draw and tag areas, and we hope that you like it, too :-) Using it, the tag to be associated to the area can be entered at once, without further clicks or mouse moves. We thus implemented a new feature: a small dialog popping up after an area is drawn. If we don't use face detection anymore at the moment, we should at least be able to tag areas manually in a fast and convenient way. So either, it's up to you to decide if you want it or not (if you use a distribution like Gentoo), or it's up to your distributor. If you want it, you have to set the ENABLE_PLAYGROUND flag.

#Digikam facial recognition code

The default build will not compile the face management code anymore.

We did not remove the code, but we did 'hide' it behind a cmake flag. We really hope that this will change in the future. So we reluctantly decided that, at this time, the whole face thing is simply not suited for public consumption, yet. However, there does not seem to be an Open Source face detection and face recognition library that works really good. We can't rant about libkface though, because we can't do it better. What we wrote is just what's necessary to use it. In our defense, it's not our code that doesn't do the job really good, it Digikam's libkface that we use. The recognizer recognizes some person, but in most of the cases, it's not correct. The detector finds some faces, but only the straight-up front ones, and some not. Using the face detection and face recognition ourselves, we sadly had to realize that the current state of the implementation is not really suitable for productive use.

We are very pleased to announce the new release KPhotoAlbum 5.1.