---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-08-15 12:53:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 7352
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7352
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7352
Original author: sebastian sp
Original description:

On my Samsung Galaxy S3 I can face tag people/faces that are in my Android
address book.

It would be great if these tags could be recognised and matched against tags
from Shotwell.

I fear that the mobile handset saves not the name but a contact number into
the photos but I'm sure there are ways to get this working.



---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-08-16 12:49:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Category** changed from _tags_ to _metadata_
  * **Status** changed from _Open_ to _Need Information_

Can you attach a sample image to this ticket for us to examine?

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#2

Updated by sebastian sp 3 months ago

  * **File** 20130814_122346.jpg added
  * **File** Screenshot_S3_facetag.png added

Attached are two files.

The first picture is with one person tagged on the Galaxy S3 device. The
second is from the file property dialogue.

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#3

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

If your hunch is right, it looks like the camera has stuffed this information
into the Exif.Photo.UserComment field, which on the image you've supplied is a
4096 binary blob. UserComment is defined by EXIF to allow multibyte text
descriptions, but I suspect the camera has simply repurposed this field for
binary data.

If Shotwell was to support this, we would need some kind of specification
detailing the data format of the face tags. It would also be nice to know that
this is some kind of standard among camera manufacturers and not Samsung's
home-spun data format. (It would be **really** nice if they'd used XMP for
this, but they have not.)

We can't proceed until the above questions are answered. Also note that this
could work very well with the Faces branch rather than generated Tags from the
face recognition.



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 22:00 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7352 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7352
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