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Copilot AI commented Jan 22, 2026

MTCNN only detects upright faces. Images with landscape orientation or rotated faces were not being detected.

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  • Multi-angle detection: Run MTCNN at 0°, 90°, 180°, 270° rotations
  • Coordinate transformation: Map detected bounding boxes and keypoints back to original image space via transform_box_coordinates()
  • EXIF handling: Apply ImageOps.exif_transpose() before detection and annotation
  • Deduplication: Remove overlapping detections across rotations using IoU > 0.5 threshold, keeping highest confidence

Implementation

# Try all orientations
for angle in [0, 90, 180, 270]:
    rotated_image = image.rotate(-angle, expand=True)
    results = detector.detect_faces(asarray(rotated_image))
    
    # Transform coordinates back to original orientation
    for result in results:
        if result['confidence'] > FACE_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD:
            transformed_box, transformed_keypoints = transform_box_coordinates(
                result['box'], result['keypoints'], angle, 
                original_width, original_height
            )

Extracted FACE_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD (0.94) and IOU_THRESHOLD (0.5) as module constants.

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<issue_title>Faces not detected for faces in landscape orientation</issue_title>
<issue_description>Currently, the only phases that are detected are phases that are in portrait orientation only. Add support for faces that have different orientations</issue_description>

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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits January 22, 2026 07:18
Co-authored-by: urandu <4688675+urandu@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: urandu <4688675+urandu@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add support for detecting faces in landscape orientation Add multi-orientation face detection support Jan 22, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from urandu January 22, 2026 07:21
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urandu commented Jan 22, 2026

@copilot can you fix the failing check?

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Copilot AI commented Jan 22, 2026

@copilot can you fix the failing check?

I've reviewed the PR and the code appears to be valid:

  • ✓ Python syntax check passed
  • ✓ CodeQL security scan passed (no alerts)
  • ✓ No merge conflicts with master
  • ✓ AST parsing successful

Could you clarify which check is failing? I don't see any failed checks in the current workflow runs. The Docker build workflow only runs on master branch pushes, not on PRs.

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