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OpenCV - Cascade Classifier

This document provides an overview of using cascade classifiers in OpenCV to detect objects like faces and eyes in video streams. It explains the goal is to load Haar or LBP classifier files and use them to detect objects. It includes the code needed to open a video stream, load the classifiers, detect objects in each frame and display the results with drawn rectangles and circles. Sample output images showing the detected faces and eyes are also provided.

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OpenCV - Cascade Classifier

This document provides an overview of using cascade classifiers in OpenCV to detect objects like faces and eyes in video streams. It explains the goal is to load Haar or LBP classifier files and use them to detect objects. It includes the code needed to open a video stream, load the classifiers, detect objects in each frame and display the results with drawn rectangles and circles. Sample output images showing the detected faces and eyes are also provided.

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OpenCV: Cascade Classifier http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/db/d28/tutorial_cascade_classifier.

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Cascade Classifier

Goal
In this tutorial you will learn how to:

Use the cv::CascadeClassifier class to detect objects in a video stream. Particularly, we will use the functions:
cv::CascadeClassifier::load to load a .xml classifier file. It can be either a Haar or a LBP classifer
cv::CascadeClassifier::detectMultiScale to perform the detection.

Theory
Code
This tutorial code's is shown lines below. You can also download it from here

#include "opencv2/objdetect.hpp"
#include "opencv2/videoio.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;


using namespace cv;

void detectAndDisplay( Mat frame );


String face_cascade_name, eyes_cascade_name;
CascadeClassifier face_cascade;
CascadeClassifier eyes_cascade;
String window_name = "Capture - Face detection";

int main( int argc, const char** argv )


{
CommandLineParser parser(argc, argv,
"{help h||}"
"{face_cascade|../../data/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml|}"
"{eyes_cascade|../../data/haarcascades/haarcascade_eye_tree_eyeglasses.xml|}");

cout << "\nThis program demonstrates using the cv::CascadeClassifier class to detect objects (Face + eyes) in a video
stream.\n"
"You can use Haar or LBP features.\n\n";
parser.printMessage();

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face_cascade_name = parser.get<string>("face_cascade");
eyes_cascade_name = parser.get<string>("eyes_cascade");
VideoCapture capture;
Mat frame;

//-- 1. Load the cascades


if( !face_cascade.load( face_cascade_name ) ){ printf("--(!)Error loading face cascade\n"); return -1; };
if( !eyes_cascade.load( eyes_cascade_name ) ){ printf("--(!)Error loading eyes cascade\n"); return -1; };
//-- 2. Read the video stream
capture.open( 0 );
if ( ! capture.isOpened() ) { printf("--(!)Error opening video capture\n"); return -1; }
while ( capture.read(frame) )
{
if( frame.empty() )
{
printf(" --(!) No captured frame -- Break!");
break;
}
//-- 3. Apply the classifier to the frame
detectAndDisplay( frame );
char c = (char)waitKey(10);
if( c == 27 ) { break; } // escape
}
return 0;
}

void detectAndDisplay( Mat frame )


{
std::vector<Rect> faces;
Mat frame_gray;
cvtColor( frame, frame_gray, COLOR_BGR2GRAY );
equalizeHist( frame_gray, frame_gray );
//-- Detect faces
face_cascade.detectMultiScale( frame_gray, faces, 1.1, 2, 0|CASCADE_SCALE_IMAGE, Size(30, 30) );
for ( size_t i = 0; i < faces.size(); i++ )
{
Point center( faces[i].x + faces[i].width/2, faces[i].y + faces[i].height/2 );
ellipse( frame, center, Size( faces[i].width/2, faces[i].height/2 ), 0, 0, 360, Scalar( 255, 0, 255 ), 4, 8, 0 );
Mat faceROI = frame_gray( faces[i] );
std::vector<Rect> eyes;
//-- In each face, detect eyes
eyes_cascade.detectMultiScale( faceROI, eyes, 1.1, 2, 0 |CASCADE_SCALE_IMAGE, Size(30, 30) );
for ( size_t j = 0; j < eyes.size(); j++ )
{
Point eye_center( faces[i].x + eyes[j].x + eyes[j].width/2, faces[i].y + eyes[j].y + eyes[j].height/2 );
int radius = cvRound( (eyes[j].width + eyes[j].height)*0.25 );
circle( frame, eye_center, radius, Scalar( 255, 0, 0 ), 4, 8, 0 );
}

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}
//-- Show what you got
imshow( window_name, frame );
}

Explanation
Result
1. Here is the result of running the code above and using as input the video stream of a build-in webcam:

Be sure the program will find the path of files haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml and haarcascade_eye_tree_eyeglasses.xml. They are located in
opencv/data/haarcascades

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2. This is the result of using the file lbpcascade_frontalface.xml (LBP trained) for the face detection. For the eyes we keep using the file used in the
tutorial.

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