Add Person and Tagging Faces Directly in Assets

The People feature allows you to create and manage People Profiles for individuals appearing in your images and videos. Once a detected person has been assigned to a People Profile, they become searchable using Search by Person across your Library and Collections.

Before assigning people to your assets, ensure that People Detection has been run on the assets you want to manage. People Detection identifies people within images and videos and displays bounding boxes that can be assigned to People Profiles.

1. Create a People Profile

Administrators can manually create a new People Profile for someone they want to track across their asset library.

• Navigate to People -> Click Add Person.

• Enter the person's details.

• (Optional) Add Metadata to improve organisation and search.

• Click Submit.

The new People Profile is now available for assigning to detected people in your assets.

👉 Note: Depending on your Recognition Settings, HIVO can automatically create Anonymous People when the same unidentified person appears multiple times. The minimum number of appearances required is configurable in Recognition Settings.

2. Assign People to Assets

Users with the Can Tag Faces on Assets permission can assign detected people directly from an asset.

• Navigate to the Library, then open the image or video you want to manage.

• Hover over a detected person to display the bounding box.

• Click the bounding box:

  • If the person has not been assigned to the asset, or the system could not recognize and automatically assign them because your organization has enabled Disable Recognition Vectors.

  • If the face has already been assigned, select Reassign to link it to a different People Profile.

Once assigned, the detected person becomes linked to that People Profile. Multiple People Profiles can be assigned to the same asset when multiple people appear in an image or video.

Once a detected person has been assigned to a People Profile, you can use Search by Person to quickly find all related assets across your Library and Collections.

👉 Note: Face Tagging Permissions on Assets

Users with the Can Tag Faces on Assets permission can assign detected people directly from an asset. Depending on your specific permission level:

• 'Can Tag Faces on Asset' permission: You must have Full Access to the specific asset to tag faces.

• 'Can Tag Faces in Any Asset' permission: You can tag faces on any asset, even without individual permission or access rights to that asset.

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How Recognition settings affect People

Recognition Settings determine how detected people are processed after People Detection runs.

Depending on your configuration:

• Disable Recognition Vectors prevents automatic face matching while still allowing people to be detected and assigned manually.

• Only Track Known Faces only tracks people who already have a People Profile. Unknown people are not stored as Anonymous People.

• Manual Confirmation Required for Known Faces sends potential matches to People Approvals for review before they are assigned to a People Profile.

Regardless of your Recognition Settings, only people that have been assigned to a People Profile can be found using Search by Person.