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TonyRedmond
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Nov 07, 2018
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Face detection for a video

Hi,   I uploaded a video to Stream for a podcast session filmed at Ignite. Face detection doesn't work (or at least, the People tab doesn't show up for the video). Other videos have the People ta...
  • TonyRedmond's avatar
    TonyRedmond
    Nov 16, 2018

    Thanks. I'm glad it's not just me.

     

    I suspect that the problem is due to the ugliness of the people on-screen. No self-respecting algorithm could process such horrible mugs.

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ChrisWebbTech
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Nov 07, 2018
Interesting, didn't think that this used face detection, I always assumed it only worked on Team meeting recordings where it could tell who was talking and it tagged based on that. Curious to know what activates this myself.
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    TonyRedmond
    MVP
    Nov 07, 2018

    My understanding is that if your account has an E5 license (and soon any commercial Office 365 license), the intelligent features including face detection are applied by Stream when you upload a video. At least, that's what has happened in the past. It's just this video that I am having a problem with,

    • Scott Tupper's avatar
      Scott Tupper
      Iron Contributor
      Nov 08, 2018

      To my knowledge, until this feature rolls out this month to everyone, only E5 license holders can leverage Face and Search by Transcription.

      • TonyRedmond's avatar
        TonyRedmond
        MVP
        Nov 08, 2018

        I am licensed to the hilt. As I noted earlier, other videos have been processed for face detection. This one hasn't.

    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Nov 07, 2018
      Same video file format? Same source(upload?) that the others that do have this use?
      • TonyRedmond's avatar
        TonyRedmond
        MVP
        Nov 07, 2018

        MP4 file uploaded from my PC. Always.

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