Using face detection

This guide walks you through the process of detecting faces in your footage, organizing them into collections, and searching for specific people. For an overview of how face detection works and what Collections are, see Face detection.

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Detecting faces in media

To detect faces in a media file, you need to mark the media file for face detection in the Media tab (tick the checkbox in the Mark for face detection column) and choose a Collection to add the faces to. By clicking the dropdown menu, you can choose a Collection or create a new one.

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Viewing detected faces

Once the media file has been analyzed, you can see your collection of faces in the People tab. By default, all people are unnamed. With default settings, the People Grid shows all the people that occur in at least 5 seconds of footage.

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Naming people

To assign a name to a person, click the name field and type the name. After assigning a name, that person becomes searchable in the Search tab.

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Searching for people

To search for a person, click the Face icon button to bring up a list of all named people and select the person you want to search for. You can now search for any keywords or context and Jumper will find scenes of that person with the search query.

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Multi-person search

Select multiple named people from the Face search control to narrow results by cast or interview participants. Combine people filters with a visual search query. For example, select Anna and Ben with AND, then search for walking outside to find exterior shots of both people together.

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Merging groups

Occasionally, Jumper might create multiple groups for the same person. This is because the face detection algorithm might have low confidence in the detection. You can merge any group with any already named person by clicking the button on a group and selecting the person you want to merge it with.

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Regrouping faces

If you are not happy with the grouping of the faces, you can regroup them with different parameters to improve the accuracy of the grouping. You can regroup faces by clicking the ellipsis button () next to the collection name and selecting Regroup in the People tab. In the dialog, set the Grouping strictness. The scale runs from loose to strict. The stricter the setting, the more similar faces must be before Jumper groups them together. A looser setting collects more appearances of the same person but risks mixing people who look alike. A stricter setting keeps people apart but may split one person into several groups, which you can fix by merging groups.

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Remove all assigned names

You can choose whether to preserve existing names when regrouping:

• Off (default): Already assigned names will be preserved. Only unassigned faces will be regrouped.
• On: All assigned names will be removed before regrouping. This gives you a fresh start with the new grouping strategy.

To confirm the regrouping, click the Regroup button. Regrouping will typically not take very long to complete, a few seconds to a minute depending on the size of the collection.

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Troubleshooting