The next major version of the digiKam photo management software, that is digiKam 7.0, looks promising. The digiKam Team has released their first beta with deep learning powered faces management. Since the algorithms used in background (not based on deep learning) were older and unchanged since the first revision, the team found them to be “not enough powerful” to facilitate the faces management workflow automatically.
The updated version makes use of the cascade classifier and deep neural network functionality of the OpenCV library to improve face detection big time.
[Source: TFiR]
