Duplicate / Similar Photo Recognition CPU TPU usage

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I have a TS-664 running QTS 5.2.10.3577 with 2x USB Corel Edge TPUs connected. When first installed the TPUs worked for the facial recognition for my photo library but I havn’t added photos in a while and have not kept track if this still worked.

I just did a QTS firmware update and multiple app updates including QNAP AI core and it started doing Duplicate / Similar Photo Recognition, but this process is using my CPU only and is extremely slow.

Both my TPUs under Hardware resources are idle. I just added a new folder of photos and the TPUs went back to active for a while for the Face recognition but then went back to idle before it finished. Could anyone tell me which processes under AI Engines should be using the TPU / GPU or CPU?

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Hi @Jimmy as I know, only face / object recognition will use TPU or NPU to accelerate.

The duplicate / similar photo recognition only uses CPU processing, so even if the TPU or NPU is idle, it will not be used.

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Thanks for the quick response. Thats unfortunate that it only uses CPU. Is there any chance an option will be made to turn off just the Duplicate / Similar Photo Recognition feature completely? as the only thing I can find anywhere is Pause.

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Thanks for your suggestion! I’ll submit it to our internal team for review and analysis.