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I'm digitizing old images and trying to do facial recognition as a quick way to tag. I'm also doing a lot of negatives, and I like saving the original raw inverted, but that defeats facial recognition.
I'm tempted to export and import a JPG so I can do face recognition, but keeping stacks updated is just too painful -- they only accept mass changes if expanded, so if you are otherwise changing metadata, it's WAY too easy to not get all items in a stack.
So...
Can I export a JPG and take it back into a stack (I know how to do that), run face recognition on the JPG's, and then somehow move the face regions into the corresponding raw stack member?
There are two issues with that -- one is just getting it to sync the region, I'm not aware of anywhere you can do that at all? The other is if I could (let's say I write some SQL), is this going to screw up face recognition (having regions that are inverted)? I'm guessing yes?
So all I can do with these is find a way to sync metadata on the other stack memory to pick up the keyword from face recognition, but not the region. Is that right?
Do any of the plugins floating around do that? I think I vaguely recall one like that but some quick searching did not find it.
Obviously the other alternative is to discard the raw and just keep the inverted export. I'm not quite there yet, but issues like this are pushing me in that direction.
I'm tempted to export and import a JPG so I can do face recognition, but keeping stacks updated is just too painful -- they only accept mass changes if expanded, so if you are otherwise changing metadata, it's WAY too easy to not get all items in a stack.
So...
Can I export a JPG and take it back into a stack (I know how to do that), run face recognition on the JPG's, and then somehow move the face regions into the corresponding raw stack member?
There are two issues with that -- one is just getting it to sync the region, I'm not aware of anywhere you can do that at all? The other is if I could (let's say I write some SQL), is this going to screw up face recognition (having regions that are inverted)? I'm guessing yes?
So all I can do with these is find a way to sync metadata on the other stack memory to pick up the keyword from face recognition, but not the region. Is that right?
Do any of the plugins floating around do that? I think I vaguely recall one like that but some quick searching did not find it.
Obviously the other alternative is to discard the raw and just keep the inverted export. I'm not quite there yet, but issues like this are pushing me in that direction.