How to identify unknown persons in facerecognition from videos? - c++

Question

I'm using the facial recognition from videos by Philipp Wagner ,i updated the code to work with opencv 3.2 ,i had after that a real hard time to create the appropriate face database ,but then my question is how can i give a value for the unknown persons?So far when i run my code it gives the unknown person a value from my database i'am using "0" for myself and "1" for another person. how can i set it to be "-1" for example for unknown subjects ? Here is my code so far, I tried to use threshold but didn't get any results.
#include "opencv2/core.hpp"
#include "opencv2/face.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/objdetect.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace cv;
using namespace cv::face;
using namespace std;
static void read_csv(const string& filename, vector<Mat>& images, vector<int>& labels, char separator = ';') {
std::ifstream file(filename.c_str(), ifstream::in);
if (!file) {
string error_message = "No valid input file was given, please check the given filename.";
CV_Error(CV_StsBadArg, error_message);
}
string line, path, classlabel;
while (getline(file, line)) {
stringstream liness(line);
getline(liness, path, separator);
getline(liness, classlabel);
if(!path.empty() && !classlabel.empty()) {
images.push_back(imread(path, 0));
labels.push_back(atoi(classlabel.c_str()));
}
}
}
int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
// Check for valid command line arguments, print usage
// if no arguments were given.
if (argc != 4) {
cout << "usage: " << argv[0] << " </path/to/haar_cascade> </path/to/csv.ext> </path/to/device id>" << endl;
cout << "\t </path/to/haar_cascade> -- Path to the Haar Cascade for face detection." << endl;
cout << "\t </path/to/csv.ext> -- Path to the CSV file with the face database." << endl;
cout << "\t <device id> -- The webcam device id to grab frames from." << endl;
exit(1);
}
// Get the path to your CSV:
string fn_haar = string(argv[1]);
string fn_csv = string(argv[2]);
int deviceId = atoi(argv[3]);
// These vectors hold the images and corresponding labels:
vector<Mat> images;
vector<int> labels;
// Read in the data (fails if no valid input filename is given, but you'll get an error message):
try {
read_csv(fn_csv, images, labels);
} catch (cv::Exception& e) {
cerr << "Error opening file \"" << fn_csv << "\". Reason: " << e.msg << endl;
// nothing more we can do
exit(1);
}
// Get the height from the first image. We'll need this
// later in code to reshape the images to their original
// size AND we need to reshape incoming faces to this size:
int im_width = images[0].cols;
int im_height = images[0].rows;
// Create a FaceRecognizer and train it on the given images:
Ptr<FaceRecognizer> model = createFisherFaceRecognizer();
model->train(images, labels);
// That's it for learning the Face Recognition model. You now
// need to create the classifier for the task of Face Detection.
// We are going to use the haar cascade you have specified in the
// command line arguments:
//
CascadeClassifier haar_cascade;
haar_cascade.load(fn_haar);
// Get a handle to the Video device:
VideoCapture cap(deviceId);
// Check if we can use this device at all:
if(!cap.isOpened()) {
cerr << "Capture Device ID " << deviceId << "cannot be opened." << endl;
return -1;
}
// Holds the current frame from the Video device:
Mat frame;
for(;;) {
cap >> frame;
// Clone the current frame:
Mat original = frame.clone();
// Convert the current frame to grayscale:
Mat gray;
cvtColor(original, gray, CV_BGR2GRAY);
// Find the faces in the frame:
vector< Rect_<int> > faces;
haar_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, faces);
// At this point you have the position of the faces in
// faces. Now we'll get the faces, make a prediction and
// annotate it in the video. Cool or what?
for(int i = 0; i < faces.size(); i++) {
// Process face by face:
Rect face_i = faces[i];
// Crop the face from the image. So simple with OpenCV C++:
Mat face = gray(face_i);
// Resizing the face is necessary for Eigenfaces and Fisherfaces. You can easily
// verify this, by reading through the face recognition tutorial coming with OpenCV.
// Resizing IS NOT NEEDED for Local Binary Patterns Histograms, so preparing the
// input data really depends on the algorithm used.
//
// I strongly encourage you to play around with the algorithms. See which work best
// in your scenario, LBPH should always be a contender for robust face recognition.
//
// Since I am showing the Fisherfaces algorithm here, I also show how to resize the
// face you have just found:
Mat face_resized;
cv::resize(face, face_resized, Size(im_width, im_height), 1.0, 1.0, INTER_CUBIC);
// Now perform the prediction, see how easy that is:
int prediction = model->predict(face_resized);
// And finally write all we've found out to the original image!
// First of all draw a green rectangle around the detected face:
rectangle(original, face_i, CV_RGB(0, 255,0), 1);
// Create the text we will annotate the box with:
string box_text = format("Prediction = %d", prediction);
// Calculate the position for annotated text (make sure we don't
// put illegal values in there):
int pos_x = std::max(face_i.tl().x - 10, 0);
int pos_y = std::max(face_i.tl().y - 10, 0);
// And now put it into the image:
putText(original, box_text, Point(pos_x, pos_y), FONT_HERSHEY_PLAIN, 1.0, CV_RGB(0,255,0), 2.0);
}
// Show the result:
imshow("face_recognizer", original);
// And display it:
char key = (char) waitKey(20);
// Exit this loop on escape:
if(key == 27)
break;
}
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Read up on this document: Fisher Face Recognizer. Read over every method you are using. This should give you the information you need to troubleshoot.
From the document on model->set: If the distance to the nearest neighbor is larger than the threshold, this method returns -1. In your case, you're not getting any -1's returned, meaning that your threshold may set to high which will allow faces that are not similar to return a positive match.
It looks like you have not set your threshold variable. Try setting your threshold to a lower value using: model->set("threshold", DOUBLE_VALUE_HERE);.
A threshold of 0.0 would almost always return a -1 as images would always have slight differences making their distance > 0.0. Experiment with different threshold values and see if that gives you the result you're looking for. I'd recommend starting with a value of 5.0: model->set("threshold", 5.0); and working up or down from there.