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Face recognition

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:37:35 GMT

I had look the demo video of X10. It showed the X10 recognise the at least 5 faces. What means? How do it recognise and how do we use it this function? Pls explain me!

Re: Face recognition

Uliwooly — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:03:49 GMT

I have the same issue or similar issue, so far my phone hasn't been able to recognize a single face, I even posted here and some other blogs but so far NO solution or explanation or how to.

Re: Face recognition

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:01:47 GMT

In your camera mode, you'll find that you can select face recognition under setting.

Now what it does is to make sure all the faces are looking at the camera before the shot is made. This is similar to the smile detection function. It works well on a cyber-shot camera. However, the shutter lag on this phone doesn't make the use of this function very encouraging. It simply adds to that uncomfortable lag.

My recommendation is to leave it be until the 2.1 camera upgrade.

Re: Face recognition

Uliwooly — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:14:28 GMT

Yeah but even after Face Detection its on it still wont recognize friends, even after I took a picture of someone -> tag it -> take a second picture in similar position, light, etc it won't recognize the person, and so far I haven't meet anyone that got it to work on their X10

Re: Face recognition

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:17:59 GMT

Hmm... I tried it before it seems to be working fine. But then again, you guys have to understand that SE ported this function from their own OS to Android for branding purposes. So there is bound to be some errors in this case. Let's just see at the end of this or next week if the update will "cure" us all.

Re: Face recognition

Uliwooly — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:34:01 GMT

btw have you checked this out? if this is true then there wont be 16million colors but 65K even after the update

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/cws/download/1/716/952/1284710360/DW-102192-X10_WP_6.pdf

Re: Face recognition

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:39:05 GMT

This sucks, but I was expecting this. o far I think only Samsung has been fairly consistent with the screen quality.

Re: Face recognition

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:04:26 GMT

darkmax @ You means in android 1.6 version now, we can't use this function but the update 2.1 can use it. right!

Re: Face recognition

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:46:42 GMT

I mean it might work. And the leaked roadmap seems to indicate camera fixes in 2.1.

Re: Face recognition

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:35:58 GMT

I think you are mistaking face detection for face recognition

Did you not bother with the manual?

Face detection

You can use face detection to bring an off-centre face into focus. The camera automatically detects up to five faces, indicated by white frames. A green frame shows which face has been selected for focus. Focus is set to the face closest to the camera. You can also tap one of the frames to select which face should be in focus.

To set face detection

Activate the camera.
If the still camera is not selected, tap the camera icon
Tap the focus settings key in the viewfinder.
Tap the face recognition icon

To take a photo using face detection

With "Face detection" set, point the camera at your subject. Each detected face is framed.
You can tap the frame you want to use focus on, or, by not tapping, let the camera select which face to focus on.
Press the camera key halfway down. A green frame shows which face is in focus.
To take the photo, press the camera key fully down. The photo is automatically saved on the memory card.

Face recognition is what Picassa does when you upload photos, face detection is what the X10 does and will hopefully help you take better pictures.

HTH

oh, the manual is the thing that you really should read before/whilst using the phone

Re: Face recognition

Uliwooly — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:25:26 GMT

thanx for the help but that's not the issue, well at least not with me, I know how to use the phone, but it does not recognize my friends.

Re: Face recognition

suze — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:54:05 GMT

It does seem a little temperamental on the face recognition front. Do you also find that on pictures in Mediascape it doesn't always give you a tag even tho its a really clear shot of their face so you can't even add your own tag?

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/phones/detailed/addnamestofacesinphotos/xperiax10?cc=gb&lc=en

Great idea in principle, just not quite working right yet.

Re: Face recognition

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:10:55 GMT

LOL.... Very discerning camera phone! LOL.....

Re: Face recognition

Rocco1 — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:46:11 GMT

Face recognition works fine on my phone. Have tried on one, two and can find three faces.

Re: Face recognition

Uliwooly — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:27:52 GMT

Does it works for you? if it does can you share your baseband and if its the X10a or X10i?

Re: Face recognition

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:28:24 GMT

Mine worked last night with 4 faces being simultaneously boxed

Re: Face recognition

sushidushi — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:26:48 GMT

I have absolutely no idea why, but I found that the face recognition didn't work very well at all after I created my own folders to store photos, rather than replying on those the phone defaults to. When I moved the photos back to their original folders, it started to work again pretty well. It does sometimes still not recognise photos that I would expect it to recognise, but it's not bad, all in all.

I wish it had the ability to mark pictures with friends' names manually, but it doesn't always recognise faces as faces.

Re: Face recognition

suze — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:37:38 GMT

Think this thread is talking about two different things....

Face Detection... In camera mode, the phone focuses on up to 5 faces so they are all in focus when you take a picture. This works fine.

Face Recognition... In mediascape, on pictures already taken it is supposed to recognise who is in the picture if the face has been set by you as one of your contact previously. If it doesn't recognise it as a 'known' face then it should give you a little tag symbol (plus sign in a circle) so you can then manually tag them by tapping on the plus and then changing name. However it doesn't always recognise a face as a face and give you the plus sign or be able to translate this to the next photo... eg got two pics of my son and my dad, one gives my son a tag but nothing for my dad yet in the next pic it is tagged with my dad but not my son. Its just very random.

Re: Face recognition

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:17:50 GMT

I must say, I know not of the Mediascape feature at all.... this is in fact the first time I am reading about it.

Re: Face recognition

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:38:39 GMT

it is a completely pointless feature.

It sometimes recognises who you have taken a picture of - hmmmmm, normally I know who I'm taking pictures of