[Feature][faces] try to detect a person even if their face is not visible

[ireun]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

Hi!

Maybe I'll give an example as this is pretty hard to explain:

Immich is able to detect a face photos 2, 3 and 4 (buffalo_l, 0.6, 0.3, 3)
It is pretty clear (for a human) that person in photo 1 is the same one.

Would it be possible to detect a person, rather then just face? (Human Pose Estimation? https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/pose/)
If yes: Would it be possible to search for a similar person (clothes, hair) in the nearby photos (time, place, exif-data) and match people through that? (even if it would need manual confirmation) (https://github.com/KaiyangZhou/deep-person-reid ?)

The app-that-can't-be-names is able to achieve this.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

cc @mertalev, thoughts?

FWIW

The app-that-can't-be-names is able to achieve this.

They've got hundreds of people dedicated to figuring that kind of thing out ;)

[mertalev]

I'm not aware of a model that recognizes a person by their body or clothes rather than by face. If this exists, it could be a good addition. My concern is whether this would consistently be an improvement, or if it could cause clustering mishaps in some cases.

[bo0tzz]

#5321