[Feature] Identify popular faces

[sujaldev]

The feature

Would it be possible to identify popular faces and then display them in a separate section in the the clients on the people page? I have no clue how it'd work but it'd be pretty cool to have this.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[kingvuke]

How do you define "popular faces"?

[sujaldev]

I don't think we'd have to define "popular faces" in the sense that an algorithm would automatically find such people, as I assume that the implementation of this feature would require manually feeding in a list of people who are considered famous by someone involved in the creation of this list, along with enough images of the faces proposed in the list. From a quick search there seem to be plenty of databases available for celebrities but that probably excludes people like say famous mathematicians and the like.

[aisbergde]

let's say: if face tagging would be distinguish between face detection and face assignment (I think, this is on the road map), then it could be possible to use face vector libraries. I don't know, if these libraries exists. They should be based on the same model, I think. And I am talking only about the technical aspects, not about privacy rules.

A related point is to share face definition between immich users, to have immich face model specific databases to share. To share on the same instance or to share between different immich instances. Or just to have a "knowledge backup" about detected persons. Because currently we will lost all clustering and assignments, if the model is switched.

It looks like currently each immich user need to cluster and name their own assets. But we have "popular people", we want to share their clusters and assignments: Mama, Papa, Oma, Opa, children, ...

And it would be helpful to be able to share them.

[jaybinks]

I think this could be as simple as, when visiting /people show a count of how many times this face has been identified (and sort by most common).

That way you could scroll and go ... ooh there is a common face ive not "named"

[alextran1502]

@jaybinks there are already sorted by faces with name then faces with the most assets.

[jaybinks]

Thanks... that wasnt obvious to me.

[ireun]

So I guess we could close this discussion? "popular faces" are at the beginning of /people/