Merge person

Available in VPC

Multiple people believed to be the same individual are merged into a single representative person. Assets, scenes, and thumbnails linked to the people being merged are transferred to the representative person, and the merged individuals will no longer appear in search results.

You can check the candidates for merging using Get similar person.

Caution

Person merge operations cannot be undone. Before merging, review the results of the Get similar person and Get person details.

Request

This section describes the request format. The method and URI are as follows:

Method	URI
POST	/api/v1/workspaces/{workspace_name}/persons/{person_id}/merge

Request headers

For information about the request headers common to all Media Intelligence APIs, see Media Intelligence request headers.

Request path parameters

You can use the following path parameters with your request:

Field	Type	Required	Description
`workspace_name`	String	Required	Workspace name
`person_id`	String	Required	Representative person ID to be retained as the result of the merge See Get person list.

Request body

You can include the following data in the body of your request:

Field	Type	Required	Description
`personIds`	Array[Integer]	Required	List of person IDs to be absorbed into the representative person Maximum of 10. You can't enter a representative person ID (`person_id`) or an ID of a person who has already been merged.

Request example

The request example is as follows:

curl --location --request POST 'https://mi.apigw.ntruss.com/api/v1/workspaces/my-workspace/persons/1001/merge' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-timestamp: {Timestamp}' \
--header 'x-ncp-iam-access-key: {Access Key}' \
--header 'x-ncp-apigw-signature-v2: {API Gateway Signature}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "personIds": [1002, 1003]
}'

Response

This section describes the response format.

Response body

The response body includes the following data:

Field	Type	Required	Description
`code`	String	-	API processing result code
`message`	String	-	API processing result message
`result`	Object	-	Person merge result
`result.personId`	Integer	-	Representative person ID remaining after the merge
`result.transferredAssetCount`	Integer	-	Number of asset connections transferred to the representative person
`result.transferredThumbnailCount`	Integer	-	Number of thumbnails transferred to the representative person
`result.mergedTime`	String	-	Merge processing date and time ISO 8601 format

Response status codes

For information about the response status codes common to all Media Intelligence APIs, see Media Intelligence response status codes.

Response example

The response example is as follows:

{
  "code": "0",
  "message": "success",
  "result": {
    "personId": 1001,
    "transferredAssetCount": 8,
    "transferredThumbnailCount": 5,
    "mergedTime": "2026-09-17T10:24:31Z"
  }
}