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Where can I find completed img's pack for training opencv face recognizing system?
Can anybody help?
have a look here
the att faces db was probably used a lot ( if you look at the docs. )
once you downloaded a set of images, you'll want to run the little python script to generate the needed csv file for training
if you opt for the yale db, you'll have to convert the images to png or pgm first ( opencv can't handle gif's)
but honestly, in the end you want to use a db, that consists entirely of faces you want to recognize [that is, your own db].
unlike most ml algo's it does not need explicit 'negative' images[people other than you want to recognize] here. thoose only add noise and degrade the actual recognition.
the only situation, where you'd want that is when there's only 1 person to recognize. you#d need some others there to increase 'contrast'
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I'm still very new to the world of machine learning and am looking for some guidance for how to continue a project that I've been working on. Right now I'm trying to feed in the Food-101 dataset into the Image Classification algorithm in SageMaker and later deploy this trained model onto an AWS deeplens to have food detection capabilities. Unfortunately the dataset comes with only the raw image files organized in sub folders as well as a .h5 file (not sure if I can just directly feed this file type into sageMaker?). From what I've gathered neither of these are suitable ways to feed in this dataset into SageMaker and I was wondering if anyone could help point me in the right direction of how I might be able to prepare the dataset properly for SageMaker i.e convert to a .rec or something else. Apologies if the scope of this question is very broad I am still a beginner to all of this and I'm simply stuck and do not know how to proceed so any help you guys might be able to provide would be fantastic. Thanks!
if you want to use the built-in algo for image classification, you can either use Image format or RecordIO format, re: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/image-classification.html#IC-inputoutput
Image format is straightforward: just build a manifest file with the list of images. This could be an easy solution for you, since you already have images organized in folders.
RecordIO requires that you build files with the 'im2rec' tool, re: https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/versions/master/faq/recordio.html.
Once your data set is ready, you should be able to adapt the sample notebooks available at https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sagemaker-examples/tree/master/introduction_to_amazon_algorithms
I'm in the feasibility stage of a project and wanted to know whether the following was doable using Machine Vision:
If I wanted to see if two files were identical, I would use a hashing function of sorts (e.g. sha1 or md5) on the files and store the results in a database.
However, if I have two images where say image 1 is 90% quality and image 2 is 100% quality, then this will not work as they will have different hashes.
Using machine vision, is it possible to "look" at an image and create a signature from it, so that when another image is encountered, we can say "have we already got this image in the system", and if so, disregard the new image, and if not, save the image?
I know that you are able to perform Machine Vision comparison between two known images, e.g.:
https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/09/15/python-compare-two-images/
(there's a lot of code in there so I cannot simply paste in here for reference, unfortunately)
but an image by image comparison would be extremely expensive.
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python provide the module called : imagehash :
imagehash - encodes the image which is commend bellow.
from PIL import Image
import imagehash
hash = imagehash.average_hash(Image.open('./image_1.png'))
print(hash)
# d879f8f89b1bbf
otherhash = imagehash.average_hash(Image.open('./image_2.png'))
print(otherhash)
# ffff3720200ffff
print(hash == otherhash)
# False
print(hash)
above is the python code which will print "true" if images are identical and "false" if images are not identical.
Thanks.
I do not what you mean by 90% and 100%. Are they image compression quality using JPEG? Regardless of this, you can match images using many methods for example using image processing only approaches such as SIFT, SURF, BRISK, ORB, FREAK or machine learning approaches such as Siamese networks. However, they are heavy for simple computer to run (on my computer powered by core-i7 2670QM, from 100 to 2000 ms for a 2 mega pixel match), specially if you run them without parallelism ( programming without GPU, AVX, ...), specially the last one.
For hashing you may also use perceptual hash functions. They are widely used in finding cases of online copyright infringement as well as in digital forensics because of the ability to have a correlation between hashes so similar data can be found (for instance with a differing watermark) [1]. Also you can search copy move forgery and read papers around it and see how similar images could be found.
I am implementing a facial expression recognition and am using SVM to classify given expression.
When I train, I use this command line
svm.train(myFeatureVector,myLabels,Mat(),Mat(), myParameters);
svm.save("myClassifier.yml");
which will later when I will predict using
response = svm.predict(incomingFeatureVector);
But then when I want to train more than once (exited the program and start again), it seems to have overwritten my previous svm file. Is there any way I could do read previous svm file and add more data into it (and then resave it ,etc) ? I looked up on this openCV documentation and found nothing. However, when I read on this page; there is a method called CvSVM::read. I don't know what that does/how to implement it.
Hope anyone can help me :(
What you are trying to do is incremental learning but unfortunately Support Vector Machines is a batch algorithm, hence if you want to add more data you have to retrain with the whole set again.
There are online learning alternatives, like Pegasos SVM but I am not aware of any that is implemented on OpenCV
I'm looking for advices, for a personal project.
I'm attempting to create a software for creating customized voice commands. The goal is to allow user/me to record some audio data (2/3 secs) for defining commands/macros. Then, when the user will speak (record the same audio data), the command/macro will be executed.
The software must be able to detect a command in less than 1 second of processing time in a low-cost computer (RaspberryPi, for example).
I already searched in two ways :
- Speech Recognition (CMU-Sphinx, Julius, simon) : There is good open-source solutions, but they often need large database files, and speech recognition is not really what I'm attempting to do. Speech Recognition could consume too much power for a small feature.
- Audio Fingerprinting (Chromaprint -> http://acoustid.org/chromaprint) : It seems to be almost what I'm looking for. The principle is to create fingerprint from raw audio data, then compare fingerprints to determine if they can be identical. However, this kind of software/library seems to be designed for song identification (like famous softwares on smartphones) : I'm trying to configure a good "comparator", but I think I'm going in a bad way.
Do you know some dedicated software or parcel of code doing something similar ?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
I had a more or less similar project in which I intended to send voice commands to a robot. A speech recognition software is too complicated for such a task. I used FFT implementation in C++ to extract Fourier components of the sampled voice, and then I created a histogram of major frequencies (frequencies at which the target voice command has the highest amplitudes). I tried two approaches:
Comparing the similarities between histogram of the given voice command with those saved in the memory to identify the most probable command.
Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) to train a classifier to distinguish voice commands. I used LibSVM and the results are considerably better than the first approach. However, one problem with SVM method is that you need a rather large data set for training. Another problem is that, when an unknown voice is given, the classifier will output a command anyway (which is obviously a wrong command detection). This can be avoided by the first approach where I had a threshold for similarity measure.
I hope this helps you to implement your own voice activated software.
Song fingerprint is not a good idea for that task because command timings can vary and fingerprint expects exact time match. However its very easy to implement matching with DTW algorithm for time series and features extracted with CMUSphinx library Sphinxbase. See Wikipedia entry about DTW for details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_time_warping
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/download
I want to check whether the images is downloaded completely. Is there any library to use?
The images I want to verify including various formats such jpeg, png, bmp etc.
The standard go-to library for that kind of thing in Python is the Python Imaging Library (PIL).
I have used Pyhton Pillow module (PIL) and Imagemagick wrapper wand (for psd, xcf formats) in order to detect broken images, the original answer with code snippets is here.
I also implemented this solution in my Python script here on GitHub.
I also verified that damaged files (jpg) frequently are not 'broken' images i.e, a damaged picture file sometimes remains a legit picture file, the original image is lost or altered but you are still able to load it.
I quote the full answer for completeness:
You can use Python Pillow(PIL) module, with most image formats, to check if a file is a valid and intact image file.
In the case you aim at detecting also broken images, #Nadia Alramli correctly suggests the im.verify() method, but this does not detect all the possible image defects, e.g., im.verify does not detect truncated images (that most viewers often load with a greyed area).
Pillow is able to detect these type of defects too, but you have to apply image manipulation or image decode/recode in or to trigger the check. Finally I suggest to use this code:
try:
im = Image.load(filename)
im.verify() #I perform also verify, don't know if he sees other types o defects
im.close() #reload is necessary in my case
im = Image.load(filename)
im.transpose(PIL.Image.FLIP_LEFT_RIGHT)
im.close()
except:
#manage excetions here
In case of image defects this code will raise an exception.
Please consider that im.verify is about 100 times faster than performing the image manipulation (and I think that flip is one of the cheaper transformations).
With this code you are going to verify a set of images at about 10 MBytes/sec (modern 2.5Ghz x86_64 CPU).
For the other formats psd,xcf,.. you can use Imagemagick wrapper Wand, the code is as follows:
im = wand.image.Image(filename=filename)
temp = im.flip;
im.close()
But, from my experiments Wand does not detect truncated images, I think it loads lacking parts as greyed area without prompting.
I red that Imagemagick has an external command identify that could make the job, but I have not found a way to invoke that function programmatically and I have not tested this route.
I suggest to always perform a preliminary check, check the filesize to not be zero (or very small), is a very cheap idea:
statfile = os.stat(filename)
filesize = statfile.st_size
if filesize == 0:
#manage here the 'faulty image' case
You can guess by attempting to load the image into memory (using PIL or somesuch), but it's possible that some images could be loaded ok without being complete - for example an animated GIF might load fine if you have the header and the first frame of the animation, and you won't notice that later frames of the animation were missing.
A more reliable approach would probably be to use some out-of-band communication, like rather than watching a folder and processing new files as soon as they exist, find some way of hooking into the downloader process and getting it to give you a signal when it decides it is ready.