Smart lightning face detection accuracy

DxO PhotoLab Windows topics
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I am using Photolab 1.2.0 b3627 and since Photolab 1.1, it seems to be that the face detection accuracy for smart lightning has decreased compared to DXO OpticsPro. For most photos, I end up having to manually select the zones with the faces, even when it seems that the face shot was perfect (light+perspective). Has something changed in this area?

2

Hello Erik,

Could you, please, provide us with some samples where the application can’t detect the faces?
Please, upload them on upload.dxo.com and let me know when ready.

Thank you

3

Hello Erik,

I confirm there’s no recent change in this area, and that it’s worth providing us any input picture where face detection is working in OpticsPro11 and not working with PhotoLab.

Thanks a lot,

Benoît

4

Done - uploaded two files today. I haven’t tested these ones with Optics Pro, it just seemed to me that the face should be an easy catch but I know the algorithms around the detection can be a whole other story.

5

Thank you Erik.

Regards,
Svetlana G.

6

Thanks Erik. Sent pictures have no face detected in both OpticsPro 11 and PhotoLab, so that’s not a regression. But it’s perfectly true there is a lot of room to improve our face detection, especially in case of profile faces. I’ve got this point in mind for an ulterior update of Photolab.