Student Albums are based on Google Photos' facial recognition which works correctly ~90% of the time (estimated based on my observations): it works great for ~90% of the students and it works great for ~90% of their pictures.  This sounds great but it means that ~10% of the pictures in a student album may have issues, and even worse, ~10% of the students will have problems with their album.  We need your help with getting this as correct as possible to give everyone easy access to their pictures.

The ~90% that works  is amazing and will probably find pictures the band member that you didn't know existed.  Sometimes it's so good you have to play Where's Waldo: "Oh, I see him; part of his  out-of-focus head is peeking out from behind the tuba."

Let us know about the missing album by filling out the Album Corrections Form;  It asks for the following information:

1. Student's name, instrument, school years they participated in band, and graduation year.

2. What kind of issue the album has with a description of the problem

3. Filenames of few pictures that include the student AND/OR a few other pictures (not band) with a clear view of the student that we can use to help seed the facial recognition process.

You may always e-mail us at bandpics1@olentangymusic.org with questions or concerns. 

To let us know about an issue concerning a photo or student album, please check out the type of issues below.  

Problems and Correction Requests

Student doesn't have an album (Missing album)

• Please be sure that you checked ALL the current, past classes and unknown graduation year to confirm that we didn't make a mistake with the graduation year.  There are no controls for Google Photos for us to directly fix this but we will do everything we can to fix this.  This is both the most difficult and most important problem for us to fix.

Student has multiple albums (Multiple albums)

• We will merge the face groups, delete the duplicate album, and delete the duplicate webpage picture after we confirm there are no negative facial recognition impacts.

Student's graduation year (in their code) is incorrect or missing (Grad year)

• We will fix their code, album, and placement on the webpage as soon as can.

Student's album contains pictures w/o the student (False positive)

• Please be sure that you checked that the student is not in the distance, out-of-focus, or partially showing; Google Photos facial recognition is better at finding these faces than expected.  False positives can happen with either facial recognition or when populating the album.  If this is a face recognition issue we can fix it, but if it is caused by album population there isn't anything we can do as that process is automated.  We will take a look and let you know what we found and what we were able to do, if anything.

Student's album is missing pictures with the student (Missing picture)

• There are no controls for Google Photos for us to directly fix false negatives but we will see if there is something else wrong that caused this.  If you can provide us a list of specific pictures that aren't in the album but should be we can add those manually if we can't get facial recognition to pick them up.

Other issues

• We have tried to think of the most common requests.  If you do not see one that addresses your concerns, let us know about other issues by filling out the Other Issue Form.