Removing Annoying Tip about Unconfirmed Faces

[Josebr]

How do I remove, stop the annoying tip from showing up each time I start up imatch. It's a tip about unconfirmed faces. I have 20,000 of them and will not be getting to them any time soon. Please tell me how to get rid of this tip.

[Mario]

This is not a tip but an relatively important system notification.
Having too many unconfirmed faces will slow down the face recognition severely. In your case, every time you assign a person to a face or confirm a face annotation, IMatch has to analyze 20,000 faces in order to determine if one of these faces matches the new confirmed person. And if you confirm only 10 faces, this makes 200,000 other faces to consider and check in the background...

There are some notifications which can be disabled, like the off-line folder notification or the "folders added outside..." notification. After careful consideration I have decided to now add an option to disable the face confirmation notification. Because it can really become a performance bottleneck. I understand that it might be mildly annoying to affected users to see this once they start IMatch.

[ubacher]

Would not disabling automatic face recognition stop this warning? I had this annoying problem and ended up deleting
all the unconfirmed faces. Afterwards I thought of the possibility of disabling automatic face recognition. So please test to see if that stops the message appearing.
(Under Preferences - Application - Face Recognition)

[Josebr]

I had previously disabled automatic face recognition to get rid of this tip. But now it is back. I did go to the Preferences location you mentioned and everything is No, or Never. I don't want imatch to use face recognition at all. I want to assign a name to a face. Mario must think I just want to stop this notification. But I don't want any auto, AI or otherwise face recognition to be used on my files. I am the one carefully assigning categories to each photo.

Mario, how do I turn off face recognition?

[Mario]

If you have 20,000 unconfirmed faces, face recognition was on at some point in time. This will automatically trigger face reclustering (searching persons for unconfirmed faces) whenever a person is assigned. You cannot turn this off.

The only way I would see is to select the 20K files and then use the command (File Window context menu) to delete unassigned/unconfirmed faces. Also disable the "Automatically Assign..." option in Edit > Preferences > Application.

[PandDLong]

If you have 20,000 unconfirmed faces, face recognition was on at some point in time.

I had the situation where I was importing files that had already had face annotations from other software (Apple in my case) which cluttered up my face recognition and created many unconfirmed faces.

Could that be a source of 20,000 unconfirmed? (and a potential ongoing source of more even after you cleanup your current iMatch database).

Michael

[Mario]

When IMatch imports XMP face regions with a "tag", if creates the person with the "tag" name and confirms the face. Assuming the other software / device knows what it does.

For Apple devices there have been a number of "issues" Apple silently fixed / worked-around on their devices, but which caused problems as soon as you had the chutzpah to open an image taken on an iDevice with another software or on another platform. Face regions with a width/height of zero come to mind, for example.

[Josebr]

So Mario, back to my question. How do I get rid of the annoying (it gets me angry) message at the bottom of my screen? Surely there must be a way to get rid of it. I don't find your answer is clear. Can you explain in plain English how to remove the message. Surely you want a happy customer? Why would you want a software user to have to put up with silly things?

[Mario]

I answered the question already in this post https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?msg=102306

Surely you want a happy customer? Why would you want a software user to have to put up with silly things?

I'm sorry to hear that this useful notice is of such a concern for you and makes you very unhappy. This makes me sad.

I suggest you open a feature request, asking for an option to suppress this particular notification.
This will tell us how many users see this as an issue too and then I can see if yet another option is needed.

Until then, do what I've explained in my initial reply.

[Josebr]

Mario, I might be doing something wrong or looking in the wrong area, but when I do as the silly Tip suggest and go to where the Unconfirmed Faces are, it lists only 9 photos event though the Tip has a different number.

[Josebr]

 The tip says 20,000 unconfirmed faces. Let me know what' the real number? And by the way I did confirm the faces on the 9 photos and it did not stick. They still show up as unconfirmed. Thought you should know, Thanks.

[Mario]

When you look at the Quality Panel in the IMatch Dashboard, how many unconfirmed faces does it show?
You can click on the link following the stats to open all files with unconfirmed faces in a File Window.
Then select the files and remove the unconfirmed faces with the command available in the File Window. Hopefully this is not just another silly tip.

[Josebr]

Mario,
It show only 9 unconfirmed faces. Which I assigned a category too, but they still show up. And the tip still says I have onver 20,000 unconfirmed faces. I did try to post a photo in my last reply which I put in the text area. But it did not take. I thought replies were suppose to have an attachment link?

[Mario]

The notice is triggered when IMatch starts and detects too many unconfirmed faces.
It does not update automatically or anything later on. Just close it.

When you have only 9 unconfirmed faces left, IMatch will not show it again.

[mopperle]

I did try to post a photo in my last reply which I put in the text area. But it did not take. I thought replies were suppose to have an attachment link?

Do not use ,,Quick Reply" but click on the reply button, them you can add attachments.

[Mario]

Or, when using Quick Reply, click on Preview to enable the attachment options.