Feat: find people in videos - #1559
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Adds a nullable faces.frame_id referencing video_frames(id), so a face can come from a sampled keyframe instead of a photo. Image and video faces stay in one table because clustering must see every face in a single DBSCAN run. Nothing writes frame_id yet. Guarded ALTER migrates shipped databases; the exclusive arc is enforced in Python since SQLite cannot ALTER in a CHECK.
Route faces.py through a module-private _connect(), as images.py does. Tagging now skips an image deleted mid-inference instead of aborting.
Rows written before enforcement can point at deleted images, keyframes or clusters. A video face's NULL image_id is by design, not an orphan.
FaceDetector.detect_faces now takes only a path and returns a typed result; the image tagging loop persists the faces and owns the deleted-image guard. Face search reuses the detector's embedding instead of a second FaceNet.
Keyframes YOLO saw a person in are face-detected; faces are deduplicated, capped per video and stored against their keyframe. Off by default: a full recluster chains through them and fused 7 people on a real library. Keyframes are now saved at 1280px so faces clear the size gate.
Keyframe faces never reach DBSCAN and never move a cluster mean; they join the nearest photo cluster at the same-person threshold, one per keyframe per cluster. On the real library the photo clusters now match a photos-only recluster exactly, and 14 of 20 test videos attach to a known person.
VideoData and its converter move to the schema and utils modules so the face cluster surfaces can return videos in the videos routes' shape instead of declaring a near-identical model of their own.
Opening a person now lists the videos they were found in, played with the same card and player as the videos page. Face counts stay photo-only so the "N photos" label and the People ordering keep their meaning; videos are counted alongside.
Searching for people together now also finds the videos they appear in, ranked by how many of them are present, and the AI tagging page lists them under the photos. Video results only render while a search is active, so the videos page's own list never leaks in.
Searching with a photo or the webcam now also finds videos the same face appears in, each listed once and ranked by its best-matching keyframe. The home gallery shows them only while a search is active.
Video face detection moves from an env-only switch to a user preference in Settings under Video Tagging, defaulting to off: it runs a second detector over every keyframe showing a person, so it is opt-in.
Videos tagged before finding people in videos was turned on have no keyframe faces and no way to be found again: isTagged is already 1, so the tagging pass skips them forever. facesScanned records the face pass separately, and the queries here are what a backfill selects on.
Classifies the keyframes already on disk and re-samples only the ones showing a person, at the resolution their source allows: YOLO letterboxes to its own input size, so what is stored decides whether a face can be embedded, not whether a person is found. Frame rows and their SigLIP2 embeddings are left in place, which a re-tag would have thrown away.
The scan runs on the shared executor and reports its progress from the facesScanned counts, so a caller can poll a pass that takes over an hour. It also runs as part of any later tagging or sync, so a library tagged before the setting existed catches up on its own.
The switch only ever applied to videos tagged after it, which on an existing library means nothing happens. A button beside it starts the scan and reports progress from the backend's counts, so a scan another pass started reads correctly too.
Covers keyframe face detection, why video faces attach to photo clusters instead of being clustered, the backfill scan and its Settings button, and regenerates openapi.json. Also corrects face-pipeline figures that had drifted from the code: 128-D embeddings, 0.45 face confidence, the adaptive DBSCAN eps and the real reclustering triggers.
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backend/app/routes/videos.py (1)
273-318: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd accurate return annotations to both route handlers.
The normal paths return
FaceScanStatusResponse. The error paths raiseHTTPException, soFaceScanStatusResponseis the accurate return annotation.Proposed fix
-def scan_video_faces(app_state: State = Depends(get_state)): +def scan_video_faces( + app_state: State = Depends(get_state), +) -> FaceScanStatusResponse:-def get_video_face_scan_status(): +def get_video_face_scan_status() -> FaceScanStatusResponse:🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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426-426: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse a module-private
_connect()helper for both new database functions.
backend/AGENTS.mdrequires_connect()to enablePRAGMA foreign_keys = ON.face_clusters.pydoes not define that helper, so add it before replacing the direct connections at lines 426 and 525.Proposed fix
+def _connect() -> sqlite3.Connection: + conn = sqlite3.connect(DATABASE_PATH) + conn.execute("PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON") + return conn + - conn = sqlite3.connect(DATABASE_PATH) + conn = _connect()🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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255-267: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDrive the disabled-path tests from the stored preference.
video_util_face_detection_enabled()readsdb_get_metadata()beforeVIDEO_FACE_DETECTION. The current fixture has no metadata table, so these tests use the config fallback after the metadata read fails. They verify detector suppression for that fallback, but they do not verify that a storedVideo_Face_Detection=Falsesuppresses detector loading inrun_passandrun_scan. The separate preference tests cover only the helper result.Patch
app.database.metadata.db_get_metadatain both fixtures so the model-loading assertions exercise the stored-preference path.♻️ Proposed change
with ( patch( "app.utils.videos.video_util_extract_video_frames", side_effect=lambda video_id, path, interval: frames[video_id], ), patch("app.utils.videos.video_util_get_frame_interval", return_value=5.0), + patch( + "app.database.metadata.db_get_metadata", + return_value={ + "user_preferences": {"Video_Face_Detection": face_detection} + }, + ), patch("app.config.settings.VIDEO_FACE_DETECTION", face_detection),Apply the same
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In `@backend/app/database/face_clusters.py`:
- Line 301: Update the cluster query around the GROUP BY for the cluster result
and count paths to add a photo-face existence condition using HAVING
COUNT(f.image_id) > 0. Ensure clusters containing only keyframe faces are
excluded consistently with db_get_clusters_count(), while retaining existing
grouping and video-count behavior.
In `@backend/app/database/faces.py`:
- Around line 127-130: Update the sqlite3.Error handler in the orphaned-face
repair function to log the full traceback with logger.exception, roll back the
transaction, and re-raise the original exception instead of returning 0, so
startup cannot treat a failed repair as successful.
In `@backend/app/database/video_frames.py`:
- Line 221: Update the progress-count query near the AI_Tagging filter to also
require v.isTagged = TRUE, matching the video set processed by
db_get_videos_needing_face_scan().
In `@backend/app/routes/videos.py`:
- Around line 245-247: Expose background face-scan execution state and errors
through the status API: update the worker error path near videos.py lines
245-247 to persist or publish failure state instead of returning an unobserved
False, retain the submitted task state near videos.py lines 282-285, and include
it in FaceScanStatusResponse. Update UserPreferencesCard near lines 117-118 to
use that state for progress, completion, and retry-after-failure behavior.
In `@backend/app/utils/videos.py`:
- Line 870: In backend/app/utils/videos.py at lines 870-870, wrap each backfill
video’s processing in per-video exception handling, log the failure, continue
processing later videos, and report failures after the loop. Apply the same
boundary to the untagged-video loop at lines 1014-1020, ensuring remaining
videos are processed and the function returns False after any failures.
In `@docs/overview/features.md`:
- Around line 34-35: Update the face-recognition feature description to state
that videos appear in face-search results only after they are scanned, including
existing videos requiring the Scan videos action or a later folder sync or
AI-tagging pass.
In `@frontend/src/components/Dialog/FaceSearchDialog.tsx`:
- Line 37: Define endpoint-specific response envelope types at the frontend API
boundary for face search, base64 face search, multi-person search, and
cluster-image helpers, including the specified image, video, count, total, mode,
and cluster-name fields. Update consumers such as FaceSearchDialog to use these
typed responses instead of any or unchecked assertions, and add explicit
adapters for backend image models rather than directly casting
MultiPersonSearchImage or ImageInCluster to Image.
In `@frontend/src/pages/AITagging/AITagging.tsx`:
- Line 184: Update the conditional rendering around EmptyAITaggingState so it
appears only when both the photo collection and matchedVideos are empty;
preserve the existing matchedVideos section and render neither empty state nor
an incorrect fallback for video-only results.
In `@frontend/src/types/Media.ts`:
- Around line 91-92: Update the Cluster type declaration so cluster_name accepts
null and video_count is required, matching the ClusterMetadata response
contract; change only these property types.
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In `@backend/app/database/face_clusters.py`:
- Line 426: Define a module-private _connect() helper in face_clusters.py that
opens DATABASE_PATH, enables PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON, and returns the
connection; update both new database functions to use _connect() instead of
direct sqlite3.connect calls.
In `@backend/app/routes/videos.py`:
- Around line 273-318: Update the return annotations for both scan_video_faces
and get_video_face_scan_status to FaceScanStatusResponse, preserving their
existing route behavior and HTTPException error handling.
In `@backend/tests/test_video_faces.py`:
- Around line 255-267: Update both disabled-path test fixtures for run_pass and
run_scan to patch app.database.metadata.db_get_metadata with user_preferences
containing Video_Face_Detection set to face_detection. Keep the existing
VIDEO_FACE_DETECTION patch and model-loading assertions unchanged so both tests
exercise the stored-preference path.
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- Hide clusters left with only keyframe faces from the People listing - Count scan progress over tagged videos only, so it can reach 100% - Report whether the Settings scan is running or failed, and allow a retry - Keep scanning and tagging the remaining videos when one fails - Type the face search, multi-person and cluster image responses - Show AI Tagging's empty state only when no videos matched either
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🟡 Minor · Update the photo-only search text. · MultiPersonSearchDialog.tsx:111-151
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the photo-only search text.
The dialog returns both photos and videos. Update the description and match-mode helper text to mention both result types. The “Any” and “All” labels do not need changes.
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In `@backend/app/routes/videos.py`:
- Around line 302-304: Make the face-scan running check and future assignment
atomic by adding an application-level lock initialized once during startup, then
use it in the POST handler around _face_scan_status, executor.submit, and
app_state.video_face_scan assignment. Preserve the single-active-run behavior so
concurrent requests cannot submit duplicate scans or overwrite an unfinished
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In `@frontend/src/pages/SearchResults/SearchResults.tsx`:
- Around line 291-292: Update the people-search success branch around
fetchMultiPersonSearch to map data.videos and dispatch them through setVideos,
in addition to the existing image handling. Ensure the people-search rendering
path uses displayVideos so video-only and mixed results are displayed.
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In `@frontend/src/components/Dialog/MultiPersonSearchDialog.tsx`:
- Around line 111-151: Update the descriptive text in MultiPersonSearchDialog,
including the dialog description and match-mode helper text, to refer to both
photos and videos rather than photos only. Leave the “Any” and “All” labels and
match-mode behavior unchanged.
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Closes #1558
Faces found in video keyframes now join the people recognised in photos, so a person's videos appear on their page and in face search. Off by default; turned on under Settings → Video Tagging → Find People in Videos.
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faces.frame_id).videos.facesScanned), so an interrupted scan resumes where it stopped. My library (527 videos, 2,873 keyframes) is projected at ~16 minutes, from a 40-video sample.Also includes two fixes the feature depended on: every
faces.pyconnection now enforces foreign keys, and face rows that already violate them are repaired at startup.Schema
Two columns, both added with guarded
ALTERs so existing databases migrate in place:faces.frame_idvideos.facesScannedTesting
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