In order to correct names mistakenly assigned to faces by ACDSee, you can rerun facial recognition on faces you have not manually named. This action will require ACDSee to restart. Removes all data related to Face Detection and Recognition from the database, including face outlines, names, and information pertaining to whether Face Detection has been run on files. Then, re-enable Facial Recognition, and, if necessary, rerun Facial Recognition on a selection of files, or your entire library. If you experience more incorrect names than you can reasonably correct by hand, disable Facial Recognition and manually name several faces for each person in your photo collection. You will experience fewer incorrect names, but may have to manually name people more frequently.Īll three settings can result in incorrect names, especially when Facial Recognition encounters a person for the first time.
This option is useful if your photo collection consists of a large number of different people, especially if those people are physically similar, such as close family members. You may experience more incorrect names.Ĭonservative: Faces need to be more similar in order to be recognized. This option is useful if your photo collection consists of just a few people in a wide variety of poses, lighting, and film quality. Moderate: The default setting is optimized to name most faces without adding too many incorrect names.Īggressive: Faces need to be less similar in order to be recognized. Use the slider to set how similar two faces need to be in order for ACDSee to identify them as the same individual. With this option enabled, ACDSee will attempt to recognize individuals based on the faces you have named in previous images. Toggle this option to turn on Facial Recognition. With this enabled, Face Detection will rerun next time you browse the changed files either in Manage or View mode. You can allow Face Detection to rerun if you suspect you have files that have been changed since the last time Face Detection was run on them. This allows you to avoid having to browse all of your folders. The ACDSee Indexer will allow the Face Detection process to be done when your computer is idle and ACDSee is not running.
You can enable Face Detection to be undertaken by the ACDSee Indexer. You will also be able to search using the names you have assigned to faces.Īllow Face Detection to detect faces while your computer is idle using the ACDSee Indexer.
Therefore, with this option disabled, previously detected faces will still display face outlines and names (if named) in View mode. Once Face Detection has been run on an image, that information is stored in the database. In View mode, Face Detection will run on the open image only. With this option enabled, Face Detection will run on files encountered during browsing in Manage mode. Toggle this option to turn on Face Detection. On the Face Detection page, set or change the options as described below.In the Options dialog box, click Face Detection.You can toggle Face Detection on and off, trigger Face Detection to rerun, or allow the ACDSee Indexer to undertake Face Detection while your computer is idle. Setting the Face Detection & Recognition Options