How to detect Blur rate of a face effectively in c++? - c++

Question

I am trying to detect blur rate of the face images with below code.
cv::Mat greyMat;
cv::Mat laplacianImage;
cv::Mat imageClone = LapMat.clone();
cv::resize(imageClone, imageClone, cv::Size(150, 150), 0, 0, cv::INTER_CUBIC);
cv::cvtColor(imageClone, greyMat, CV_BGR2GRAY);
Laplacian(greyMat, laplacianImage, CV_64F);
cv::Scalar mean, stddev; // 0:1st channel, 1:2nd channel and 2:3rd channel
meanStdDev(laplacianImage, mean, stddev, cv::Mat());
double variance = stddev.val[0] * stddev.val[0];
cv::Mat M = (cv::Mat_(3, 1) << -1, 2, -1);
cv::Mat G = cv::getGaussianKernel(3, -1, CV_64F);
cv::Mat Lx;
cv::sepFilter2D(LapMat, Lx, CV_64F, M, G);
cv::Mat Ly;
cv::sepFilter2D(LapMat, Ly, CV_64F, G, M);
cv::Mat FM = cv::abs(Lx) + cv::abs(Ly);
double focusMeasure = cv::mean(FM).val[0];
return focusMeasure;
it some times gives not good results as attached picture.
Is there a best practice way to detect blurry faces ?
I attached an example image which is high scored with above code which is false.
Best

Answer 1

I'm not sure how are you interpreting your results. To measure blur, you usually take the output of the Blur Detector (a number) and compare it against a threshold value, then determine if the input is, in fact, blurry or not. I don't see such a comparison in your code.
There are several ways to measure "blurriness", or rather, sharpness. Let's take a look at one. It involves computing the variance of the Laplacian and then comparing it to an expected value. This is the code:
//read the image and convert it to grayscale:
cv::Mat inputImage = cv::imread( "dog.png" );
cv::Mat gray;
cv::cvtColor( inputImage, gray, cv::COLOR_RGB2GRAY );
//Cool, let's compute the laplacian of the gray image:
cv::Mat laplacianImage;
cv::Laplacian( gray, laplacianImage, CV_64F );
//Prepare to compute the mean and standard deviation of the laplacian:
cv::Scalar mean, stddev;
cv::meanStdDev( laplacianImage, mean, stddev, cv::Mat() );
//Let’s compute the variance:
double variance = stddev.val[0] * stddev.val[0];
Up until this point, we've effectively calculated the variance of the Laplacian, but we still need to compare against a threshold:
double blurThreshold = 300;
if ( variance <= blurThreshold ) {
std::cout<<"Input image is blurry!"<<std::endl;
} else {
std::cout<<"Input image is sharp"<<std::endl;
}
Let’s check out the results. These are my test images. I've printed the variance value in the lower-left corner of the images. The threshold value is 300, blue text is within limits, red text is below.