'Anonymous Faces' in Recognition

The "Recognition" page offers functionalities to manage unidentified faces.

Anonymous faces were detected in your content but have not been assigned to a specific person. To automatically detect faces, you need to enable "Run Automation" in Recognition mode, you can explore more here.

👉 To display "Anonymous", go to the Recognition page, click "Show Anonymous"

Show Anonymous

Managing "Anonymous Faces" in Recognition

Anonymous is classified by HIVO based on the following characteristics:

✨ Grouping by Characteristics: If someone’s face has been detected on an Asset but not labeled yet, they’ll be grouped with any other instances of the same detected characteristics.

✨ Automatic Tagging for Recognized Faces: If an Asset is uploaded and a face within it has already been tagged, then that upload will be automatically tagged with the given person.

✨ Minimum Appearance Threshold: To avoid cluttering results with faces from crowds, HIVO requires a face to appear at least 3 times across different assets before creating an "anonymous user."

Note: There may be false positives with detected faces, particularly when the detected faces are small, or if there’s items such as glasses or masks obstructing the face.

Action on Anonymous Faces

👉 Click on an anonymous person to see the Assets they’ve appeared in and edit their details.

Select Anonymous

👉 The 3 dots icon will open the actions that you can take on the person:

Show Edit Anonymous option

• Edit Details: Name the detected face & optionally add a description or assign them to a User in your Client. Naming a face will label all Assets with the detected face at once.

• Is This Someone Else?: Reassign all instances of this face to an existing person.

• Delete Face: Delete the face from Recognition, including from the anonymous person list. This can be useful for faces that were incorrectly detected, or if they're not important (e.g. a spectator that’s appeared in multiple photos).

Edit Anonymous Option

Note: You can apply this method to edit assigned names.

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