Overview
This release introduces custom face metadata enrichment to enable smarter video search, alongside security updates and updates to the README file, including a new Desktop App section and Edit Mind's featuring on Syntax.fm.
Features
Custom Metadata for Face Recognition
You can now attach rich, structured metadata to known faces and have it automatically indexed alongside face recognition results, a community-requested feature.
Place a metadata.json file inside each named face folder under your FACES_DIR, check the FACES_DIR environment variable in .env.system:
FACES_DIR/
└── Ilias/
├── photo.jpg
└── metadata.json
Example FACES_DIR/Ilias/metadata.json:
{
"name": "Ilias Haddad",
"alternate_names": ["Ilias Hadd"],
"nationalities": ["Netherlands", "Morocco"],
"date_of_birth": "1989-03-01",
"place_of_birth": "Dordrecht, Netherlands",
"height_m": 1.87,
"positions": ["Centre-back"],
"current_club": "Union Touarga",
"club_jersey_number": 20,
"dual_nationality": true
}
When a video is indexed and the face of "Ilias" is recognized in a scene, all metadata properties are embedded into the vector DB document for that scene. This means you can now search scenes using any metadata attribute — for example, searching current_club: Union Touarga will return every scene featuring that person.
Other Improvements
- Security updates: Upgraded project dependencies with the latest security patches.
- README updates: Added a Desktop App section and highlighted the Edit Mind feature on Syntax.fm.
Edit Mind featured at Syntax.fm
Watch Edit Mind featured on Syntax.fm (starts at 41:21)
Full Changelog: https://github.com/IliasHad/edit-mind/compare/v0.20.4...v0.21.0