Provide autocomplete of existing persons while manual tagging faces on images

[lippoliv]

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Expected behaviour

On images in the "faces" tab of the sidebar, I see who is tagged on the image. For faces who are recognized, but not named yet, I can add a name.

I should be able to select existing persons, beside creating new ones on the fly.

Actual behaviour

I cannot select existing persons, I can just create new ones.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open an image with an recognized face, which is not connected to a person
2. Type in the name of an existing person

Server configuration

• Operating system: Docker nextcloud:25.0.4-apache

• Pdlib version:

  ARG DLIB_BRANCH=v19.24
  ARG PDLIB_BRANCH=master
  

• How is DLib installed: Make sure it is working correctly with this tool

• How is PDlib installed: Make sure it is working correctly with this tool

• PHP version: PHP 8.1.16

• Web server: Apache

• Database: Docker mariadb:10.5

• Nextcloud version: 25.0.4

Client configuration

• Browser: Tested in Brave and Edge

• Operating system: Windows 10

Logs

Background task log with debug.

sudo -u apache php occ -vvv face:background_job

unrelated

Web server error log

Web server error log

none

Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)

Nextcloud log

none

Browser log

Browser log

none

[matiasdelellis]

Hi @lippoliv
Unfortunately this is a regression forced by a change in nextcloud 25.. (The side panel retains focus, and we can't focus on the dialog we use to search for people.)

I would like to solve it soon. Thank you very much for reporting it.

[lippoliv]

Memories has implemented something like that, maybe not 100% what I described. But basically listen to the input and show some suggestions: pulsejet/memories#177

Maybe instead of a text field, we can open a dialog, if the user clicks on the "unknown face". Then we could let him select a existing face or create a new one?

In that dialog, we could probably (haven't reviewed source code yet) show most similar faces? That would be a quiet nice feature I gues.