- New: references that do not resemble their own person are set aside automatically.
Version 0.14 checked every reference against the other people in the gallery. That
check has a blind spot, and it cost a misidentification here five days later. - What happened: one photo in my own gallery — taken from above, showing mostly the back of
a head — was published under my name when a different person walked in. It reached
0.576 against her live face, well past the threshold of 0.45. - The cross-check had seen that photo and let it pass at 0.368, just under its limit.
It was not wrong; it measures gallery against gallery, and a live face comes far closer
than any stored photo of the same person does. Gallery-vs-gallery is a lower bound, and
this case shows by how much. - The stronger signal was there all along: that photo's average similarity to my own other
49 photos was −0.011, where 0.265 is normal for me. It was the single
worst-fitting photo in my own gallery, and needed no second person to be recognised as
worthless. A reference that barely resembles the person it belongs to holds almost no
face information — and an embedding without face information matches strangers as
readily as its owner. - FaceID now applies both checks in one pass: on new photos, once at startup, and on demand
(Settings → Keeping the gallery clean → check gallery now). Verified against the
real event: with the photo set aside, that same face no longer matches me at all — I drop
out of the top three — and it is correctly recognised as the right person at 0.460. - Measured relative to each person, not by a fixed number: how alike someone's photos
normally are varies a lot with how varied the shots are (0.23 to 0.47 across the people
here). A photo falls when it stays belowself_outlier_ratio(default 0.25) of that
person's median, and only for people with at least 5 photos, where the median means
something. Across 188 photos of 13 people it set aside 3 — the culprit above, one
blown-out IR frame, one more head seen from above. self_outlier_ratio: -1switches it off. As always nothing is deleted: photos move to
the person's set-aside pile marked ⚠ with the numbers behind the decision, and one click
restores them.