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I found that AvPicFaceXmpTagger_1.4.exe takes the ...

2010-02-20T12:24:01.439-05:00

I found that AvPicFaceXmpTagger_1.4.exe takes the picasa face detect results and embeds the data in the .jpg meta data using exif tool.

Its an extra step in the process but greatly speeds up rescanning by other machines needing to use the same data without the entire scanning process to be rerun on each, in my case 30+ hours 160k files.

Ripple
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whoops - hit the wrong button in the moderation pa...

2009-12-14T13:03:46.636-05:00

whoops - hit the wrong button in the moderation page for Ira's response. Here it is:

OK checked again, you're right. it's working offline as well.

As for Paranoia, I which it was that simple. I'm on the team fighting the government Biometric DB here in Israel, a really bad law that was just passed last week after a long fight, and we are now considering taking this to the supreme court to render it illegal, but it's a pretty slow and scary process till we get there...

Ira - that's very interesting. Good luck!

Ira - I'm pretty sure I've done this while not log...

2009-12-14T09:58:29.903-05:00

Ira - I'm pretty sure I've done this while not logged in and it works just fine. I am also fairly certain that the recognition is being done locally.

Perhaps you've been watching too many movies lately!

As far as I can tell, this works only when logged ...

2009-12-13T03:45:18.695-05:00

As far as I can tell, this works only when logged in, and the identification may actually be done on the remote servers...

In other words, Picasa may be uploading a bunch of your pictures to be recognized without asking you, and that means your friends and clients' biometric data is then collected in a central DB they may not be interested to be in, not could they erase themselves from it. I'm not comfortable at all with that idea :-(

after you have found all the mugs in picasa, you c...

2009-09-24T08:18:39.982-04:00

after you have found all the mugs in picasa, you can select all shots of one person and add a "real" tag to it. If you have jpg's you can save them to the files and lightroom should be able to find them i suppose (had no time to test it yet). Now only a way to do the same for my raw pics.