Segregating unassigned faces into two groups

[sybersitizen]

In my ongoing face recognition project, I expect to permanently retain a pretty large number of Ignored faces because I have many photos of strangers or people I don't need to search for, so I'll never assign them as persons. But I guess I want IMatch to retain their generic face annotations just for counting people in images.

However, there is also a smaller subset of Ignored faces of people whom I might want to assign as persons in the future. I'd like an easy way to keep track of those people separately from the large number that will always remain ignored.

I'm considering setting up a generic 'person' only for the faces that I might want to assign later. I would tell IMatch to not automatically assign that 'person' to faces. Then I would eventually assign them manually myself or mark them as permanently Ignored.

Is there anything unwise about doing this? Is there a better way to accomplish the segregation of the two groups?

[PandDLong]

That is pretty much what I do for those people that I want to retain in the annotation and as a face but don't yet have an identification.  I will add such annotations manually as well.

I created multiple generic persons so I have 'Unknown 1', Unknown 2', etc in order to not repeat the same person tag in a file.   I believe when I tested, I found issues with repeating the same person as the PersonInImage tag is a repeatable tag and, at times, duplicates will be deleted from a repeatable tag.   To be fair, I don't remember the specifics of my testing so perhaps I had a use case which was a problem - best is to test for yourself whether you need one generic person or multiple.

Hope that is helpful.

Michael