Merging Faces with Digikam Faces
I'm going from an external library to an Immich-managed library with our mobile photos. All of our historical photos have XMP sidecars with face data from Digikam which Immich now reads in. What is going to happen from a technical and usage perspective if I start merging in the faces detected from Digikam with the faces detected and "managed" by Immich? Will this just seemlessly work? Are there any issues with the boundaries / locations in photos of a face Immich detected vs a face that was read in via Digikam data?
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.Since some of these people and faces likely exist in immich’s machine learning results, these will end up being duplicated when you import the face metadata. The face detection job does handle deduplicating faces, but the metadata extraction job responsible for importing XMP data does not.
I'm good with "starting over" if necessary and just use Immich, remove the old people it ingested from digikam, but would be nice if I could provide the data of the already matches faces, though I'm sure it's not that simple
If you’re willing to reset the machine learning data, then you can import the library, wait for everything to finish and then click “reset” next to “face detection” in the job panel. This should produce the cleanest, best result
An alternative is to merge the duplicate people and “refresh” face detection instead, but I’m less confident it’d get the same result
Could I just delete the people that were imported via digikam without resetting anything?
I never merged them and they're named different than what Immich detected
Oh, you already imported the metadata faces? Hmm, I don’t think there’s a way to get rid of that data through the UI (short of removing it from the XMP itself and re-running metadata extraction). A SQL query could do it though
Ah ok. Hmm. Not sure how best to proceed because I would have to remove those faces from the side car files right?
Do you want to get rid of both metadata-sourced faces and people or just the people? The former can be done with sql, but the latter would need you to merge them yourself
Unless I remove the data from the side car files, won't Immich just pick them up again if metadata is refreshed?
Yes, if you rerun it manually