![]() ![]() Maybe the bottleneck is elsewhere (disk I/O), but given how fast these apps can build thumbnails I have my doubts that's the problem probably just need multithreading/better multithreading. Fotobounce actually did pretty good int his regard, bouncing between 10 and 40% usage initially, later rising to 70-90% which is near ideal, but it was the best of the lot as far as fully utilizing resources, and the UI is rather "heavy" and clunky anyway. I have an i7 920 and 6GB of RAM, but CPU usage barely gets above 7% (less than 1 core fully utilized) when doing face recognition in Picasa. ![]() One annoying thing about all the apps I've tried, including Picasa, is they also don't seem to use the full power of my system in the scanning process. That's all I've found so far besides a few spammy hits with mention of one or two other apps where I couldn't confirm face recognition was even a feature, and I wasn't about to go installing more apps willy nilly to find out. Fotobounce - A desktop app that claims to center its photo organizing around people "because that's the way we think users like to work with their photos" requires Adobe AIR even though it's fully a desktop app (come on, seriously?) this app has an interesting, clean UI, definitely focused on face recognition, decent recognition quality and speed but the UI is overall slow (probably because of AIR) and the actual workflow is definitely clunkier than Picasa so this one is promising but its lack of other features makes it pretty much a 1 trick pony for me so its integration with other apps (like a simple right-click "edit in this app" feature) will be key if I'm to use it any further.digiKam - This is an open source photo suite which is a part of KDE I guess, and I hadn't heard of it before, but for an open source tool it's surprisingly nice unfortunately only the 2.0 beta has face recognition and I couldn't find a Windows binary version to test, only source so far.Photoshop Elements - Not tested, but reviews say it too is cumbersome and not as good as Picasa:.Windows Live Photo Gallery - Tested briefly, found it cumbersome and not very accurate either, confirmed by Cnet review:. ![]()
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