Face Recognition - Releases

• Implement the Chinese Whispers Clustering algorithm in native PHP.
• Open the model before requesting information. Issue #679
• If Imaginary is configured, check that it is accessible before using it.
• If Memories is installed, show people's photos in this app.
• Add face thumbnail when search persons.
• Disable auto rotate for HEIF images in imaginary. Issue #662
• Add the option to print the progress in json format.

• Add support for (Now old) Nextcloud 26.
• Add support to NC27 for early testing.
• Clean some code an split great classed to improve maintenance.
• Don't catch Imaginary exceptions. Issue #658
• Update french translation thanks to Jérémie Tarot.

• Fix migrations on PostgreSQL. Issue #619 and #615
• Fix OCS Api (API V1). Thanks to nkming2

• Just bump version, to remove beta label and allow installing in NC25
• Gratitude: @pulsejet, very kindly accept the integration of this application into your super cool photo gallery called Memories. If you didn't know about this project, I invite you to give it a try, that will pleasantly surprise you. :tada: Thanks again. :smiley:
• New Russian translation thanks to Regardo.

Added

• Adds an API version 2 that theoretically is enough for any client.
• Note that can change minimally until we release the stable version.

Fixed

• Only fix tests.

Changed

• Use x, y, width, height to save face detections on database.

Added

• Support Nextcloud 25
• A little love to the whole application to improve styles and texts.
• Show the image viewer when click come image on our "gallery". Is press Control+Click it will open the file as before.
• Don´t allow run two face:commands simultaneously to prevent errors.
• Some optimizations on several queries of main view.
• Add a new command <face:sync-albums> to create photos albums of persons.

Fixed

• Rephrase I'm not sure button to better indicate what it does. Issue #544

Changed

• Change Person to people since Persons in a very formal word of lawyers.
• Edit people's names in the same side tab instead of using dialogs. This is really forced by changes to the viewer which retains focus, and avoids typing anywhere. It also has a regression that misses the autocomplete. :disapointed:
• Typo fix. Just use plurals on stats table.
• Show the faces of the latest photos, and sort photos by upload order.

Translations

• Update German translation thanks to lollos78.
• Update Italian (Italy) translation thanks to lollos78.
• Update of many other translations. Thank you so much everyone.

Added

• Add an extra step to setup. You must indicate exactly how much memory you want to assing for image processing. See occ face:setup --memory doc on readme.
• Adds the option to effectively ignore persons when assigning names. See issue #486 #504.
• It also allows you to hide persons that you have already named. Issue #405
• Implement the option of: This is not such a person. Issue #506 and part of #158
• Enable NC23

Translations

• Update some translations. Thank you so much everyone.

Added

• Add an extra step to setup. You must indicate exactly how much memory you want to assing for image processing. See occ face:setup --memory doc on readme.
• Adds the option to effectively ignore persons when assigning names. See issue #486 #504.
• It also allows you to hide persons that you have already named. Issue #405
• Implement the option of: This is not such a person. Issue #506 and part of #158
• Enable NC23

Translations

• Update some translations. Thank you so much everyone.

Added

• Initial support for php 8. See issue #456
• Add link to show photos of person on sidebar.
• Add static analysis, phpunit and lintian test using github workflow.
• Add an real OCS public API to get all persons. See PR #512.

Fixed

• Fix sidebar view when user has disable it.
• Set the Image Area slider to the maximum allowed by the model. See issue #527
• Don't try to force the setCreationTime argument to be DateTime. See PR #526
• Migrate hooks to OCP event listeners. See PR #511

Translations

• New Czech translation thanks to Pavel Borecki, and update others. Thank you so much everyone.

Added

• Initial support for NC22.
• Update translations.

Added

• Initial support for NC22.
• Update translations.

Added

• Add links in thumbnails of rename persons dialogs. Issue #396
• Initial autocomplete feature for names. Issue #306

Fixed

• Respect .noimage file, since it is also used in Photos. Issue #446
• Fix delete files due some change on ORM with NC21. Issue #471
• Some fixes on make clean.

Translations

• New Italian translation thanks to axl84, and update others. Thank you so much everyone.

Fixed

• Register the Hooks within the Bootstrap mechanism, removing many undesirable logs. Similar to https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/22590

Translations

• New Korean (Korea) translation thanks to HyeongJong Choi
• Updating many others translations from Transifex. This time I cannot individualize your changes to thank you properly, but thank you very much to all the translators.

Added

• Increase the supported version only to NC21. Thanks to @szaimen. See issue #429
• Add support for unified search, being able to search the photos of your loved ones from anywhere in nextcloud. Thanks to @dassio. See PR #344
• Add defer-clustering option. It changes the order of execution of the process deferring the face clustering at the end of the analysis to get persons in a simple execution of the command. Thanks to @cliffalbert. See issue #371

Added

• Add support for analyzing photos from group folders. Issue #364

Fixed

• Fixed Prevent error when pretty url is disabled on subfolder #379
• Fix responses when you want to see another user's faces. Issue #352
• Fix enconde name to URL params queries. Issue #359
• Typo in title. Issue #357 and #380. Thanks to @strugee
• Try to improve some messages.

Translations

• Add Dutch translation thanks to Robin Slot.
• Update Macedonian language thanks to Сашко Тодоров
• Update French language thanks to Tho Vi
• Update Serbian language thanks to Branko Kokanovic.
• Update Spanish language thanks to Matias De lellis.

Added

• Support to Nextcloud 20. Issue #343 and #347. Thanks to xiangbin li.
• Add a dialog to assign names to the new persons found.

Changed

• The main view of face clusters change switches to a view of persons. We consider person to the set of all faces with the same name, regardless of the clusters. Fix issue #334 and parts of #134.
• The second viev show all photos of a person. The server thumbnails are reused, and therefore the performance is drastically improved. In general fix issue #193 and parts of #134.
• Finally, the third view, allows you to see all the clusters as before, only to fix name errors if necessary.

Fixed

• Fix crashed on postWrite and prevent other apps to work. Issue #341

Translations

• Update French tranlation thanks to Tho Vi

Added

• Add support for analyzing photos from group folders. Issue #364

Fixed

• Fixed Prevent error when pretty url is disabled on subfolder #379
• Fix responses when you want to see another user's faces. Issue #352
• Fix enconde name to URL params queries. Issue #359
• Typo in title. Issue #357 and #380. Thanks to @strugee
• Try to improve some messages.

Translations

• Add Dutch translation thanks to Robin Slot.
• Update Macedonian language thanks to Сашко Тодоров
• Update French language thanks to Tho Vi
• Update Serbian language thanks to Branko Kokanovic.
• Update Spanish language thanks to Matias De lellis.

Added

• Support to Nextcloud 20. Issue #343 and #347. Thanks to xiangbin li.
• Add a dialog to assign names to the new persons found.

Changed

• The main view of face clusters change switches to a view of persons. We consider person to the set of all faces with the same name, regardless of the clusters. Fix issue #334 and parts of #134.
• The second viev show all photos of a person. The server thumbnails are reused, and therefore the performance is drastically improved. In general fix issue #193 and parts of #134.
• Finally, the third view, allows you to see all the clusters as before, only to fix name errors if necessary.

Fixed

• Fix crashed on postWrite and prevent other apps to work. Issue #341

Translations

• Update French tranlation thanks to Tho Vi

Changed

• Reduce the minimum system memory to 1GB. Issue #319 and others.

Fixed

• Fix migration command due 'Invalid datetime format'. Issue #320
• Fix can't change model to 4, migration says model <4> not installed. Issue #318

Translations

• Update French tranlation thanks to Tho Vi

Added

• Introduduce a new model (Model 4, aka DlibCnnHog5) that is 2 times slower, but much more accurate, which now is in testing stages, and we invite you to test since probably will be the next recommended model. See PR #313 for details.
• Add face:migrate command that allows to migrate the faces obtained in a model to a new one. Still recommended to fully analyze the images when changing models, but can save a lot of time migrating them. See PR #309
• Add face:reset --model command to just reset current model.

Changed

• At least 1000 faces are needed for to make an initial clustering.
• Don't group faces smaller than 40 pixels, which are supposed to be of poor quality. This is configurable within an advanced hidden setting. PR #299
• All reset commands require a confirmation to work.
• Hint the 4x3 relation when model recommending memory values.

Deprecated

• After many analysis, we discourage the use of model 2 (Aka DlibCnn68). We still recommend model 1, and model 3 for low-resource devices. You can migrate the faces using the new command, but we recommend analyzing them again.

Fixed

• Fix estimated time in the administration panel. See RP #297
• Fix that removing .nomedia file does not trigger facerecognition when next analysis starts. Issue #304
• Fix travis tests and lot of scrutinizer reports.
• Fix that if increase the minimum confidence dont cluster any face in model 3
• Log the system info before return any error. Part of issue #278

Translations

• Add Macedonian translation thanks to Сашко Тодоров

Changed

• Adjust the appstore makefile rule to ignore vue and teplates files.

Bug fixes

• Fix dump models table when none was installed yet. Issue #276.
• Fix integer overflow on 32 bit systems.. Issue #278.
• Fix Admin page when not model installed. Issue #284.

Translations

• Update German (Germany) translations thanks to ProfDrJones.

Added

• Experimental support of External Storage. Issue #212
• Add some documentation about how expect to install, test and use the application
• Optionally you can install Pdlib 1.0.2 from https://github.com/matiasdelellis/pdlib that increase the speed of clustering drastically.
• The sidebar has been rewritten to show it in the Photos application.
• Add php-bzip2 as a necessary dependency to install the models.

Changed

• Also adds a minimum php memory requirement for HOG. 128 MB.
• Indicate which model is enabled in the summary table of the setup --model command.

Bug fixes

• Consider the memory configured in php as a dependency on the models.
• Improves the description of errors and prints the links to documentation whenever it can.
• Fix plurals in admin panel. Issue #256.
• Use paginated queries when search persons on file app. Fix part of issue #263.
• Search mainly faces, rather than persons in file view. Fix issue #264.
• Don't compare a good face with a bad one. This greatly improves the quality of the faces clusters.
• Fix that sidebar says no faces were found when just not clustered yet. Issue #255.
• Fix tests on Nextcloud 18 and 19.

Translations

• New French tranlation thanks to Florian Carpentier
• Update Chinese translation thanks to yui874397188 and Jack Frost
• Update German translation thanks to Johannes Szeibert
• Update Polish translation thanks to Piotr Esse
• Update Spanish translation thanks to Matias De lellis