Search Filename
I'm really new to Immich but I've noticed something odd with the search function. At this time while I do some testing I only have pictures with no metadata other than date taken set. If I search by a word in the filename essentially all photos are displayed. But....if I search with the m: to search metadata it then only returns exactly what I searched for. I'm confused because the m: should be to search metadata only but its finding the word in filenames? Just seems so odd that the plain search brings back all results including incorrect ones yet this one is correct but shouldn't be.
Any help in understanding the intent or is this a bug?
Any help in understanding the intent or is this a bug?
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Hello, first and foremost, you can treat the search as placeholder for now. We have plan to make it better in the future. the metadata syntax include filename as well.
normal CLIP search will search based on the context of the images
Good to know on the meta search and that does fit my wants other than having to use the m:
I do have a question in follow up, how does CLIP search based on context of images when it knows not of any names since there is no meta data filled out? Its not like its been tagged saying this face is this or that person. My assumption its a guess based on the results.
I think I don't have enough merit to explain the technical detail, however, this article would give you enough information https://openai.com/research/clip
CLIP: Connecting text and images
We’re introducing a neural network called CLIP which efficiently learns visual concepts from natural language supervision. CLIP can be applied to any visual classification benchmark by simply providing the names of the visual categories to be recognized, similar to the “zero-shot” capabilities of GPT-2 and GPT-3.
Thanks @Alex and that seems to confirm my observation that when it comes to giving results from a persons name it is just giving it a WAG (wild a** guess) and that is not a knock since CLIP is more focused on objects. My fault was assuming the generic search was more like a windows explorer search alone.
You can search a person name with m:<person-name>