Facial Recognition

Facial recognition, or facial recognition as another term, is Shade’s ability to identify unique faces and people within the assets that you manage with Shade. This allows you to associate names to faces so that you can search for “<insert person here> shooting a basketball” and other similar natural language queries.

How the Facial Recognition Works

Shade’s people recognition first recognizes unique faces, it is able to identify all faces within a photo with close to 100% accuracy, from there, it clusters faces based on face similarity. As a result, depending on the orientation of the face, any additional items (such as hats or glasses), the AI might say two faces are different faces and cluster them differently.

Merging Faces and Removing Faces

Merging faces is simple and straightforward, simply drag a face on top of the other to merge those two clusters together. This equates the two clusters moving forward. Note: You can only merge faces with a named, identified face.

Removing faces is similar - you can right click on a face, and say “remove cluster”, and it will remove those items from your facial recognition database. This is useful if there are specific faces such as crowds or extras that are not needed.