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Q: Faces listing picture as having a missing face, but there is none there

Hi all,

I am using iPhoto '11 and have a smart album called "Missing Faces". The criteria is set to find all photos that have been scanned but have an unknown or untagged face in them. Works great for most pictures. I can see the pic and select the one or more faces that were found but not identified. However, one pic has 4 faces identified, no other faces listed, but still shows up as an unidentified face. The only criteria for this album is "face" "is" "unnamed". I cannot figure out why just this one photo is doing this. Anyone else experience this?

Thanks!

MacBookPro 2007, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPhoto '11 (iLife '11)

Posted on Jan 14, 2011 6:52 PM

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Q: Faces listing picture as having a missing face, but there is none there

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  • by RandyBrown,

    RandyBrown RandyBrown Jan 16, 2011 8:15 PM in response to SDmofo
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    Jan 16, 2011 8:15 PM in response to SDmofo
    I just upgraded to '11 today and the exact same thing started happening..
  • by Wally Bradford,Apple recommended

    Wally Bradford Wally Bradford Jan 16, 2011 9:30 PM in response to SDmofo
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    Jan 16, 2011 9:30 PM in response to SDmofo
    I just updated to iPhoto 9.1 and noticed that I had twenty photos in my Unnamed Faces smart folder, when I looked at the photos, I could find no unnamed faces in the photo. I realized that these were all cropped photos! When I "reverted to original", I found the unnamed face at the edge of the picture. I took care of the face and re-cropped the photo. The photo was eliminated from the smart folder.
  • by SDmofo,

    SDmofo SDmofo Jan 17, 2011 10:17 AM in response to Wally Bradford
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    Jan 17, 2011 10:17 AM in response to Wally Bradford
    Hi Wally,

    I tried that, but the picture wasn't cropped. It actually is the original, from my camera. I've de-tagged and re-tagged it, removed it, re-added it, removed the faces and then rescanned for faces. Same result. Just one pesky photo giving me this issue. Very weird.
  • by Essenchill11,

    Essenchill11 Essenchill11 Jan 21, 2011 6:31 AM in response to SDmofo
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    Jan 21, 2011 6:31 AM in response to SDmofo
    It may be something you've done already but have you checked everywhere in the photo for an 'unnamed' tag - I know some of my photos have 'unnamed' when there are no people in the picture and it's picked up on the detail of a tyre or a cloud formation! I apologise if you've already done this.
  • by Arpamac,

    Arpamac Arpamac Feb 15, 2011 9:39 PM in response to SDmofo
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    Feb 15, 2011 9:39 PM in response to SDmofo
    Try going to Photos-->Detect Missing Faces and the picture should instantly (or sluggishly) disappear.
  • by akositzke79,

    akositzke79 akositzke79 Mar 1, 2011 2:36 PM in response to SDmofo
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    Mar 1, 2011 2:36 PM in response to SDmofo
    I've had the same problem as well. I never had this issue with iPhoto 09, but as soon as I upgraded I suddenly had dozens of "Unnamed Faces" ... and many of the photos have no unnamed face on them at all. I had tried rescanning them, as well as removing all the tags and retagging them, and this only fixes the problem maybe 50% of the time. None of the photos are edited - they are all the "original" photos.
  • by Charlie Bigpotatoes,

    Charlie Bigpotatoes Charlie Bigpotatoes Jan 6, 2012 2:40 PM in response to SDmofo
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    Jan 6, 2012 2:40 PM in response to SDmofo

    Had the same problem and I think I came up with a fix which worked for me if you'd like to give it a go.

     

    From the faces info bar I simpily added another face and named it someone who wasn't in the photo.

     

    On both photos I did this with (the two that were stuck in the "smart" album) the new face I added disapeared and the photo vanished from the album.

     

    Can't test it any more as I only had 2 photos stuck but give it a try.

  • by Tom Ritch,Apple recommended

    Tom Ritch Tom Ritch Apr 20, 2016 1:40 PM in response to SDmofo
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    Apr 20, 2016 1:40 PM in response to SDmofo

    I am a "little" late in replying because I just saw this question. 

     

    When I had a similar problem it turned out that in many photos, the same face had been found multiple times.  Different instances of finding the face found slightly different parts of the image.  The areas containing the face were sufficiently different for the finding algorithm to consider them different faces.  However, the areas were sufficiently alike that they hid one another, depending on which was in front.  In some cases both found faces had been assigned the same name.  In other cases, one face had been assigned a name and the other was "unknown".  If the named face is in front, the found face labeled "unknown" will be hidden.  I suspect that is what you are seeing. 

     

    To identify such faces which have been found more than once, select a face, then use <TAB> to select a different face.  Successive tabs rotate the selection through all faces.  If a face has been found twice, each defining rectangle and associated name will be selected at different points in the tab progression.  There are at least three possible ways to identify faces which have been found more than once.  One way is if the same face has a different name assigned.  A second way it to note that the face is selected at a different point in the succession as tab steps through all found faces.  A third way is to note that the defining face rectangles covers a very slightly different part of the image. 

     

    If you determine that one of more faces has been detected more than once, the correction is to click the "x" to dismiss one of the duplicate found face rectangles.  If the rectangles can be seen to enclose different parts of the face in the photo, choose to keep the rectangle which encloses a better example of the face.  

     

    For those still using iPhoto I hope this information can be off use, even after this long.  I do not know if faces hide behind one another in Photos. 

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 20, 2016 11:39 PM in response to Tom Ritch
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    Apr 20, 2016 11:39 PM in response to Tom Ritch

    It is still the same in Photos for Mac. If a photo is showing people in a crowd, you get overlapping name fields, that can hide each other.

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    And your fix to use the "Tab" key to step the unnamed faces is working beautifully in Photos 1.5!

  • by Tom Ritch,

    Tom Ritch Tom Ritch Apr 21, 2016 2:25 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 21, 2016 2:25 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks, léonie, for letting everyone know this is still useful.  In Photos I have not seen so many problems with duplicate or hidden found faces as in iPhoto.  This may be because Photos won't allow "unnamed faces" as a Smart Album rule, which can make finding them difficult. 

  • by Tom Ritch,

    Tom Ritch Tom Ritch Apr 21, 2016 2:27 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 21, 2016 2:27 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks, léonie, for letting everyone know this is still useful.  In Photos I have not seen so many problems with duplicate or hidden found faces as in iPhoto.  This may be because Photos won't allow "unnamed faces" as a Smart Album rule, which can make finding them difficult.