I have to write a program that detect 3 types of road signs (speed limit, no parking and warnings). I know how to detect a circle using HoughCircles but I have several images and the parameters for HoughCircles are different for each image. There's a general way to detect circles without changing parameters for each image?
Moreover I need to detect triangle (warning signs) so I'm searching for a general shape detector. Have you any suggestions/code that can help me in this task?
Finally for detect the number on speed limit signs I thought to use SIFT and compare the image with some templates in order to identify the number on the sign. Could it be a good approach?
Thank you for the answer!
I know this is a pretty old question but I had been through the same problem and now I show you how I solved it.
The following images show some of the most accurate results that are displayed by the opencv program.
In the following images the street signs detected are circled with three different colors that distinguish the three kinds of street signs (warning, no parking, speed limit).
Red for warning signs
Blue for no parking signs
Fuchsia for speed limit signs
The speed limit value is written in green above the speed limit signs
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As you can see the program performs quite well, it is able to detect and distinguish the three kinds of sign and to recognize the speed limit value in case of speed limit signs. Everything is done without computing too many false positives when, for instance, in the image there are some signs that do not belong to one of the three categories.
In order to achieve this result the software computes the detection in three main steps.
The first step involves a color based approach where the red objects in the image are detected and their region are extract to be analyzed. This step is particularly useful in order to prevent the detection of false positives, because only a small part of the image is processed.
The second step works with a machine learning algorithm: in particular we use a Cascade Classifier to compute the detection. This operation firstly requires to train the classifiers and on a later stage to use them to detect the signs.
In the last step the speed limit values inside the speed limit signs are read, also in this case through a machine learning algorithm but using the k-nearest neighbor algorithm.
Now we are going to see in detail each step.
COLOR BASED STEP
Since the street signs are always circled by a red frame, we can afford to take out and analyze only the regions where the red objects are detected.
In order to select the red objects, we consider all the ranges of the red color: even if this may produce some false positives, they will be easily discarded in the next steps.
inRange(image, Scalar(0, 70, 50), Scalar(10, 255, 255), mask1);
inRange(image, Scalar(170, 70, 50), Scalar(180, 255, 255), mask2);
In the image below we can see an example of the red objects detected with this method.
After having found the red pixels we can gather them to find the regions using a clustering algorithm, I use the method
partition(<#_ForwardIterator __first#>, _ForwardIterator __last, <#_Predicate __pred#>)
After the execution of this method we can save all the points in the same cluster in a vector (one for each cluster) and extract the bounding boxes which represent the
regions to be analyzed in the next step.
HAAR CASCADE CLASSIFIERS FOR SIGNS DETECTION
This is the real detection step where the street signs are detected. In order to perform a cascade classifier the first step consist in building a dataset of positives and negatives images. Now I explain how I have built my own datasets of images.
The first thing to note is that we need to train three different Haar cascades in order to distinguish between the three kind of signs that we have to detect, hence we must repeat the following steps for each of the three kinds of sign.
We need two datasets: one for the positive samples (which must be a set of images that contains the road signs that we are going to detect) and another one for the negative samples which can be any kind of image without street signs.
After collecting a set of 100 images for the positive samples and a set of 200 images for the negatives in two different folders, we need to write two text files:
Signs.info which contains a list of file names like the one below,
one for each positive sample in the positive folder.
pos/image_name.png 1 0 0 50 45
Here, the numbers after the name represent respectively the number
of street signs in the image, the coordinate of the upper left
corner of the street sign, his height and his width.
Bg.txt which contains a list of file names like the one below, one
for each sign in the negative folder.
neg/street15.png
With the command line below we generate the .vect file which contains all the information that the software retrieves from the positive samples.
opencv_createsamples -info sign.info -num 100 -w 50 -h 50 -vec signs.vec
Afterwards we train the cascade classifier with the following command:
opencv_traincascade -data data -vec signs.vec -bg bg.txt -numPos 60 -numNeg 200 -numStages 15 -w 50 -h 50 -featureType LBP
where the number of stages indicates the number of classifiers that will be generated in order to build the cascade.
At the end of this process we gain a file cascade.xml which will be used from the CascadeClassifier program in order to detect the objects in the image.
Now we have trained our algorithm and we can declare a CascadeClassifier for each kind of street sign, than we detect the signs in the image through
detectMultiScale(<#InputArray image#>, <#std::vector<Rect> &objects#>)
this method creates a Rect around each object that has been detected.
It is important to note that exactly as every machine learning algorithm, in order to perform well, we need a large number of samples in the dataset. The dataset that I have built, is not extremely large, thus in some situations it is not able to detect all the signs. This mostly happens when a small part of the street sign is not visible in the image like in the warning sign below:
I have expanded my dataset up to the point where I have obtained a fairly accurate result without
too many errors.
SPEED LIMIT VALUE DETECTION
Like for the street signs detection also here I used a machine learning algorithm but with a different approach. After some work, I realized that an OCR (tesseract) solution does not perform well, so I decided to build my own ocr software.
For the machine learning algorithm I took the image below as training data which contains some speed limit values:
The amount of training data is small. But, since in speed limit signs all letters have the same font, it is not a huge problem.
To prepare the data for training, I made a small code in OpenCV. It does the following things:
It loads the image on the left;
It selects the digits (obviously by contour finding and applying constraints on area and height of letters to avoid false detections).
It draws the bounding rectangle around one letter and it waits for the key to be manually pressed. This time the user presses the digit key corresponding to the letter in box by himself.
Once the corresponding digit key is pressed, it saves 100 pixel values in an array and the correspondent manually entered digit in another array.
Eventually it saves both the arrays in separate txt files.
Following the manual digit classification all the digits in the train data( train.png) are manually labeled, and the image will look like the one below.
Now we enter into training and testing part.
For training we do as follows:
Load the txt files we already saved earlier
Create an instance of classifier that we are going to use ( KNearest)
Then we use KNearest.train function to train the data
Now the detection:
We load the image with the speed limit sign detected
Process the image as before and extract each digit using contour methods
Draw bounding box for it, then resize to 10x10, and store its pixel values in an array as done earlier.
Then we use KNearest.find_nearest() function to find the nearest item to the one we gave.
And it recognizes the correct digit.
I tested this little OCR on many images, and just with this small dataset I have obtained an accuracy of about 90%.
CODE
Below I post all my openCv c++ code in a single class, following my instruction you should be able to achive my result.
#include "opencv2/objdetect/objdetect.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cmath>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "opencv2/core/core.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include <string.h>
#include <opencv2/ml/ml.hpp>
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
std::vector<cv::Rect> getRedObjects(cv::Mat image);
vector<Mat> detectAndDisplaySpeedLimit( Mat frame );
vector<Mat> detectAndDisplayNoParking( Mat frame );
vector<Mat> detectAndDisplayWarning( Mat frame );
void trainDigitClassifier();
string getDigits(Mat image);
vector<Mat> loadAllImage();
int getSpeedLimit(string speed);
//path of the haar cascade files
String no_parking_signs_cascade = "/Users/giuliopettenuzzo/Desktop/cascade_classifiers/no_parking_cascade.xml";
String speed_signs_cascade = "/Users/giuliopettenuzzo/Desktop/cascade_classifiers/speed_limit_cascade.xml";
String warning_signs_cascade = "/Users/giuliopettenuzzo/Desktop/cascade_classifiers/warning_cascade.xml";
CascadeClassifier speed_limit_cascade;
CascadeClassifier no_parking_cascade;
CascadeClassifier warning_cascade;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
//train the classifier for digit recognition, this require a manually train, read the report for more details
trainDigitClassifier();
cv::Mat sceneImage;
vector<Mat> allImages = loadAllImage();
for(int i = 0;i<=allImages.size();i++){
sceneImage = allImages[i];
//load the haar cascade files
if( !speed_limit_cascade.load( speed_signs_cascade ) ){ printf("--(!)Error loading\n"); return -1; };
if( !no_parking_cascade.load( no_parking_signs_cascade ) ){ printf("--(!)Error loading\n"); return -1; };
if( !warning_cascade.load( warning_signs_cascade ) ){ printf("--(!)Error loading\n"); return -1; };
Mat scene = sceneImage.clone();
//detect the red objects
std::vector<cv::Rect> allObj = getRedObjects(scene);
//use the three cascade classifier for each object detected by the getRedObjects() method
for(int j = 0;j<allObj.size();j++){
Mat img = sceneImage(Rect(allObj[j]));
vector<Mat> warningVec = detectAndDisplayWarning(img);
if(warningVec.size()>0){
Rect box = allObj[j];
}
vector<Mat> noParkVec = detectAndDisplayNoParking(img);
if(noParkVec.size()>0){
Rect box = allObj[j];
}
vector<Mat> speedLitmitVec = detectAndDisplaySpeedLimit(img);
if(speedLitmitVec.size()>0){
Rect box = allObj[j];
for(int i = 0; i<speedLitmitVec.size();i++){
//get speed limit and skatch it in the image
int digit = getSpeedLimit(getDigits(speedLitmitVec[i]));
if(digit > 0){
Point point = box.tl();
point.y = point.y + 30;
cv::putText(sceneImage,
"SPEED LIMIT " + to_string(digit),
point,
cv::FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX_SMALL,
0.7,
cv::Scalar(0,255,0),
1,
cv::CV__CAP_PROP_LATEST);
}
}
}
}
imshow("currentobj",sceneImage);
waitKey(0);
}
}
/*
* detect the red object in the image given in the param,
* return a vector containing all the Rect of the red objects
*/
std::vector<cv::Rect> getRedObjects(cv::Mat image)
{
Mat3b res = image.clone();
std::vector<cv::Rect> result;
cvtColor(image, image, COLOR_BGR2HSV);
Mat1b mask1, mask2;
//ranges of red color
inRange(image, Scalar(0, 70, 50), Scalar(10, 255, 255), mask1);
inRange(image, Scalar(170, 70, 50), Scalar(180, 255, 255), mask2);
Mat1b mask = mask1 | mask2;
Mat nonZeroCoordinates;
vector<Point> pts;
findNonZero(mask, pts);
for (int i = 0; i < nonZeroCoordinates.total(); i++ ) {
cout << "Zero#" << i << ": " << nonZeroCoordinates.at<Point>(i).x << ", " << nonZeroCoordinates.at<Point>(i).y << endl;
}
int th_distance = 2; // radius tolerance
// Apply partition
// All pixels within the radius tolerance distance will belong to the same class (same label)
vector<int> labels;
// With lambda function (require C++11)
int th2 = th_distance * th_distance;
int n_labels = partition(pts, labels, [th2](const Point& lhs, const Point& rhs) {
return ((lhs.x - rhs.x)*(lhs.x - rhs.x) + (lhs.y - rhs.y)*(lhs.y - rhs.y)) < th2;
});
// You can save all points in the same class in a vector (one for each class), just like findContours
vector<vector<Point>> contours(n_labels);
for (int i = 0; i < pts.size(); ++i){
contours[labels[i]].push_back(pts[i]);
}
// Get bounding boxes
vector<Rect> boxes;
for (int i = 0; i < contours.size(); ++i)
{
Rect box = boundingRect(contours[i]);
if(contours[i].size()>500){//prima era 1000
boxes.push_back(box);
Rect enlarged_box = box + Size(100,100);
enlarged_box -= Point(30,30);
if(enlarged_box.x<0){
enlarged_box.x = 0;
}
if(enlarged_box.y<0){
enlarged_box.y = 0;
}
if(enlarged_box.height + enlarged_box.y > res.rows){
enlarged_box.height = res.rows - enlarged_box.y;
}
if(enlarged_box.width + enlarged_box.x > res.cols){
enlarged_box.width = res.cols - enlarged_box.x;
}
Mat img = res(Rect(enlarged_box));
result.push_back(enlarged_box);
}
}
Rect largest_box = *max_element(boxes.begin(), boxes.end(), [](const Rect& lhs, const Rect& rhs) {
return lhs.area() < rhs.area();
});
//draw the rects in case you want to see them
for(int j=0;j<=boxes.size();j++){
if(boxes[j].area() > largest_box.area()/3){
rectangle(res, boxes[j], Scalar(0, 0, 255));
Rect enlarged_box = boxes[j] + Size(20,20);
enlarged_box -= Point(10,10);
rectangle(res, enlarged_box, Scalar(0, 255, 0));
}
}
rectangle(res, largest_box, Scalar(0, 0, 255));
Rect enlarged_box = largest_box + Size(20,20);
enlarged_box -= Point(10,10);
rectangle(res, enlarged_box, Scalar(0, 255, 0));
return result;
}
/*
* code for detect the speed limit sign , it draws a circle around the speed limit signs
*/
vector<Mat> detectAndDisplaySpeedLimit( Mat frame )
{
std::vector<Rect> signs;
vector<Mat> result;
Mat frame_gray;
cvtColor( frame, frame_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY );
//normalizes the brightness and increases the contrast of the image
equalizeHist( frame_gray, frame_gray );
//-- Detect signs
speed_limit_cascade.detectMultiScale( frame_gray, signs, 1.1, 3, 0|CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE, Size(30, 30) );
cout << speed_limit_cascade.getFeatureType();
for( size_t i = 0; i < signs.size(); i++ )
{
Point center( signs[i].x + signs[i].width*0.5, signs[i].y + signs[i].height*0.5 );
ellipse( frame, center, Size( signs[i].width*0.5, signs[i].height*0.5), 0, 0, 360, Scalar( 255, 0, 255 ), 4, 8, 0 );
Mat resultImage = frame(Rect(center.x - signs[i].width*0.5,center.y - signs[i].height*0.5,signs[i].width,signs[i].height));
result.push_back(resultImage);
}
return result;
}
/*
* code for detect the warning sign , it draws a circle around the warning signs
*/
vector<Mat> detectAndDisplayWarning( Mat frame )
{
std::vector<Rect> signs;
vector<Mat> result;
Mat frame_gray;
cvtColor( frame, frame_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY );
equalizeHist( frame_gray, frame_gray );
//-- Detect signs
warning_cascade.detectMultiScale( frame_gray, signs, 1.1, 3, 0|CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE, Size(30, 30) );
cout << warning_cascade.getFeatureType();
Rect previus;
for( size_t i = 0; i < signs.size(); i++ )
{
Point center( signs[i].x + signs[i].width*0.5, signs[i].y + signs[i].height*0.5 );
Rect newRect = Rect(center.x - signs[i].width*0.5,center.y - signs[i].height*0.5,signs[i].width,signs[i].height);
if((previus & newRect).area()>0){
previus = newRect;
}else{
ellipse( frame, center, Size( signs[i].width*0.5, signs[i].height*0.5), 0, 0, 360, Scalar( 0, 0, 255 ), 4, 8, 0 );
Mat resultImage = frame(newRect);
result.push_back(resultImage);
previus = newRect;
}
}
return result;
}
/*
* code for detect the no parking sign , it draws a circle around the no parking signs
*/
vector<Mat> detectAndDisplayNoParking( Mat frame )
{
std::vector<Rect> signs;
vector<Mat> result;
Mat frame_gray;
cvtColor( frame, frame_gray, CV_BGR2GRAY );
equalizeHist( frame_gray, frame_gray );
//-- Detect signs
no_parking_cascade.detectMultiScale( frame_gray, signs, 1.1, 3, 0|CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE, Size(30, 30) );
cout << no_parking_cascade.getFeatureType();
Rect previus;
for( size_t i = 0; i < signs.size(); i++ )
{
Point center( signs[i].x + signs[i].width*0.5, signs[i].y + signs[i].height*0.5 );
Rect newRect = Rect(center.x - signs[i].width*0.5,center.y - signs[i].height*0.5,signs[i].width,signs[i].height);
if((previus & newRect).area()>0){
previus = newRect;
}else{
ellipse( frame, center, Size( signs[i].width*0.5, signs[i].height*0.5), 0, 0, 360, Scalar( 255, 0, 0 ), 4, 8, 0 );
Mat resultImage = frame(newRect);
result.push_back(resultImage);
previus = newRect;
}
}
return result;
}
/*
* train the classifier for digit recognition, this could be done only one time, this method save the result in a file and
* it can be used in the next executions
* in order to train user must enter manually the corrisponding digit that the program shows, press space if the red box is just a point (false positive)
*/
void trainDigitClassifier(){
Mat thr,gray,con;
Mat src=imread("/Users/giuliopettenuzzo/Desktop/all_numbers.png",1);
cvtColor(src,gray,CV_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(gray,thr,125,255,THRESH_BINARY_INV); //Threshold to find contour
imshow("ci",thr);
waitKey(0);
thr.copyTo(con);
// Create sample and label data
vector< vector <Point> > contours; // Vector for storing contour
vector< Vec4i > hierarchy;
Mat sample;
Mat response_array;
findContours( con, contours, hierarchy,CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE ); //Find contour
for( int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i=hierarchy[i][0] ) // iterate through first hierarchy level contours
{
Rect r= boundingRect(contours[i]); //Find bounding rect for each contour
rectangle(src,Point(r.x,r.y), Point(r.x+r.width,r.y+r.height), Scalar(0,0,255),2,8,0);
Mat ROI = thr(r); //Crop the image
Mat tmp1, tmp2;
resize(ROI,tmp1, Size(10,10), 0,0,INTER_LINEAR ); //resize to 10X10
tmp1.convertTo(tmp2,CV_32FC1); //convert to float
imshow("src",src);
int c=waitKey(0); // Read corresponding label for contour from keyoard
c-=0x30; // Convert ascii to intiger value
response_array.push_back(c); // Store label to a mat
rectangle(src,Point(r.x,r.y), Point(r.x+r.width,r.y+r.height), Scalar(0,255,0),2,8,0);
sample.push_back(tmp2.reshape(1,1)); // Store sample data
}
// Store the data to file
Mat response,tmp;
tmp=response_array.reshape(1,1); //make continuous
tmp.convertTo(response,CV_32FC1); // Convert to float
FileStorage Data("TrainingData.yml",FileStorage::WRITE); // Store the sample data in a file
Data << "data" << sample;
Data.release();
FileStorage Label("LabelData.yml",FileStorage::WRITE); // Store the label data in a file
Label << "label" << response;
Label.release();
cout<<"Training and Label data created successfully....!! "<<endl;
imshow("src",src);
waitKey(0);
}
/*
* get digit from the image given in param, using the classifier trained before
*/
string getDigits(Mat image)
{
Mat thr1,gray1,con1;
Mat src1 = image.clone();
cvtColor(src1,gray1,CV_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(gray1,thr1,125,255,THRESH_BINARY_INV); // Threshold to create input
thr1.copyTo(con1);
// Read stored sample and label for training
Mat sample1;
Mat response1,tmp1;
FileStorage Data1("TrainingData.yml",FileStorage::READ); // Read traing data to a Mat
Data1["data"] >> sample1;
Data1.release();
FileStorage Label1("LabelData.yml",FileStorage::READ); // Read label data to a Mat
Label1["label"] >> response1;
Label1.release();
Ptr<ml::KNearest> knn(ml::KNearest::create());
knn->train(sample1, ml::ROW_SAMPLE,response1); // Train with sample and responses
cout<<"Training compleated.....!!"<<endl;
vector< vector <Point> > contours1; // Vector for storing contour
vector< Vec4i > hierarchy1;
//Create input sample by contour finding and cropping
findContours( con1, contours1, hierarchy1,CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE );
Mat dst1(src1.rows,src1.cols,CV_8UC3,Scalar::all(0));
string result;
for( int i = 0; i< contours1.size(); i=hierarchy1[i][0] ) // iterate through each contour for first hierarchy level .
{
Rect r= boundingRect(contours1[i]);
Mat ROI = thr1(r);
Mat tmp1, tmp2;
resize(ROI,tmp1, Size(10,10), 0,0,INTER_LINEAR );
tmp1.convertTo(tmp2,CV_32FC1);
Mat bestLabels;
float p=knn -> findNearest(tmp2.reshape(1,1),4, bestLabels);
char name[4];
sprintf(name,"%d",(int)p);
cout << "num = " << (int)p;
result = result + to_string((int)p);
putText( dst1,name,Point(r.x,r.y+r.height) ,0,1, Scalar(0, 255, 0), 2, 8 );
}
imwrite("dest.jpg",dst1);
return result ;
}
/*
* from the digits detected, it returns a speed limit if it is detected correctly, -1 otherwise
*/
int getSpeedLimit(string numbers){
if ((numbers.find("30") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("03") != std::string::npos)) {
return 30;
}
if ((numbers.find("50") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("05") != std::string::npos)) {
return 50;
}
if ((numbers.find("80") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("08") != std::string::npos)) {
return 80;
}
if ((numbers.find("70") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("07") != std::string::npos)) {
return 70;
}
if ((numbers.find("90") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("09") != std::string::npos)) {
return 90;
}
if ((numbers.find("100") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("001") != std::string::npos)) {
return 100;
}
if ((numbers.find("130") != std::string::npos) || (numbers.find("031") != std::string::npos)) {
return 130;
}
return -1;
}
/*
* load all the image in the file with the path hard coded below
*/
vector<Mat> loadAllImage(){
vector<cv::String> fn;
glob("/Users/giuliopettenuzzo/Desktop/T1/dataset/*.jpg", fn, false);
vector<Mat> images;
size_t count = fn.size(); //number of png files in images folder
for (size_t i=0; i<count; i++)
images.push_back(imread(fn[i]));
return images;
}
maybe you should try implementing the ransac algorithm, if you are using color images, migt be a good idea (if you are in europe) to get the red channel only since the speed limits are surrounded by a red cricle (or a thin white i think also).
For that you need to filter the image to get the edges, (canny filter).
Here are some useful links:
OpenCV detect partial circle with noise
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00982526/document
Finally for the numbers detection i think its ok. Other approach is to use something like Viola-Jones algorithm to detect the signals, with pretrained existing models... It's up to you!
I have an image I'd like to display using imshow() and to update at runtime: say I'd like to run a corner detection algorithm then display the corner on this same image - like in MATLAB figure plot(), hold plot() - the hold keyword hold the previous image/graph and enables a new plot on the same figure.
Is this possible to do with OpenCV? If yes, how can I do it?
thanks
In C++, you don't need to hold it in order to update drawing. You just need to draw what you want to the image and then imshow the image. There you go.
Look at the following example from here:
int Displaying_Big_End( Mat image, char* window_name, RNG rng )
{
Size textsize = getTextSize("OpenCV forever!", CV_FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX, 3, 5, 0);
Point org((window_width - textsize.width)/2, (window_height - textsize.height)/2);
int lineType = 8;
Mat image2;
for( int i = 0; i < 255; i += 2 )
{
image2 = image - Scalar::all(i);
putText( image2, "OpenCV forever!", org, CV_FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX, 3,
Scalar(i, i, 255), 5, lineType );
imshow( window_name, image2 );
if( waitKey(DELAY) >= 0 )
{ return -1; }
}
return 0;
}
Pay attention to the imshow( window_name, image2 ), we don't do anything to hold the image, just use the loop to draw incrementally (by putText()) on the image. The image will update dynamically accordingly.
There is no concept of hold in OpenCV.
Basically, cv::imshow() will just update the window with whatever image it gets.
To "overlay" you actually need to create a new image (or reuse an existing one), draw on this new image and/or update it, e.g. with your detected corners, and call imshow() again with this updated image.
i want to find hwo to get diff b/w 2 similar grayscale images for implementation in system for security purposes. I want to check whether any difference has occurred between them. For object tracking, i have implementd canny detection in the program below. I get outline of structured objects easily.. which cn later be subtracted to give only the outline of the difference in the delta image....but what if there's a non structural difference such as smoke or fire in the second image? i have increased the contrast for clearer edge detection as well have modified threshold vals in the canny fn parameters..yet got no suitable results.
also canny edge detects shadows edges too. if my two similar image were taken at different times during the day, the shadows will vary, so the edges will vary and will give undesirable false alarm
how should i work around this? Can anyone help? thanks!
Using c language api in enter code hereopencv 2.4 in visual studio 2010
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "cv.h"
#include "highgui.h"
#include "cxcore.h"
#include <math.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace cv;
using namespace std;
int main()
{
IplImage* img1 = NULL;
if ((img1 = cvLoadImage("libertyH1.jpg"))== 0)
{
printf("cvLoadImage failed\n");
}
IplImage* gray1 = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(img1), IPL_DEPTH_8U, 1); //contains greyscale //image
CvMemStorage* storage1 = cvCreateMemStorage(0); //struct for storage
cvCvtColor(img1, gray1, CV_BGR2GRAY); //convert to greyscale
cvSmooth(gray1, gray1, CV_GAUSSIAN, 7, 7); // This is done so as to //prevent a lot of false circles from being detected
IplImage* canny1 = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(gray1),IPL_DEPTH_8U,1);
IplImage* rgbcanny1 = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(gray1),IPL_DEPTH_8U,3);
cvCanny(gray1, canny1, 50, 100, 3); //cvCanny( const //CvArr* image, CvArr* edges(output edge map), double threshold1, double threshold2, int //aperture_size CV_DEFAULT(3) );
cvNamedWindow("Canny before hough");
cvShowImage("Canny before hough", canny1);
CvSeq* circles1 = cvHoughCircles(gray1, storage1, CV_HOUGH_GRADIENT, 1, gray1->height/3, 250, 100);
cvCvtColor(canny1, rgbcanny1, CV_GRAY2BGR);
cvNamedWindow("Canny after hough");
cvShowImage("Canny after hough", rgbcanny1);
for (size_t i = 0; i < circles1->total; i++)
{
// round the floats to an int
float* p = (float*)cvGetSeqElem(circles1, i);
cv::Point center(cvRound(p[0]), cvRound(p[1]));
int radius = cvRound(p[2]);
// draw the circle center
cvCircle(rgbcanny1, center, 3, CV_RGB(0,255,0), -1, 8, 0 );
// draw the circle outline
cvCircle(rgbcanny1, center, radius+1, CV_RGB(0,0,255), 2, 8, 0 );
printf("x: %d y: %d r: %d\n",center.x,center.y, radius);
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
IplImage* img2 = NULL;
if ((img2 = cvLoadImage("liberty_wth_obj.jpg"))== 0)
{
printf("cvLoadImage failed\n");
}
IplImage* gray2 = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(img2), IPL_DEPTH_8U, 1);
CvMemStorage* storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
cvCvtColor(img2, gray2, CV_BGR2GRAY);
// This is done so as to prevent a lot of false circles from being detected
cvSmooth(gray2, gray2, CV_GAUSSIAN, 7, 7);
IplImage* canny2 = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(img2),IPL_DEPTH_8U,1);
IplImage* rgbcanny2 = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(img2),IPL_DEPTH_8U,3);
cvCanny(gray2, canny2, 50, 100, 3);
CvSeq* circles2 = cvHoughCircles(gray2, storage, CV_HOUGH_GRADIENT, 1, gray2->height/3, 250, 100);
cvCvtColor(canny2, rgbcanny2, CV_GRAY2BGR);
for (size_t i = 0; i < circles2->total; i++)
{
// round the floats to an int
float* p = (float*)cvGetSeqElem(circles2, i);
cv::Point center(cvRound(p[0]), cvRound(p[1]));
int radius = cvRound(p[2]);
// draw the circle center
cvCircle(rgbcanny2, center, 3, CV_RGB(0,255,0), -1, 8, 0 );
// draw the circle outline
cvCircle(rgbcanny2, center, radius+1, CV_RGB(0,0,255), 2, 8, 0 );
printf("x: %d y: %d r: %d\n",center.x,center.y, radius);
}
You want code help here? This is not an easy task. There are few algorithms available in internet or you can try to invent new one. A lot of research is going on this. I have some idea about a process. You can find the edges by Y from YCbCr color system. Deduct this Y value from blurred image's Y value. Then you will get the edge. Now make an array representation. You have to divide the image in blocks. Now check the block with blocks. It may slide, rotated, twisted etc. Compare with array matching. Object tracking is difficult due to background. Take care/omit unnecessary objects carefully.
I think the way to go could be Background subtraction. It lets you cope with lighting conditions changes.
See wikipedia entry for an intro. The basic idea is you have to build a model for the scene background, then all differences are computed relative to the background.
I have done some analysis on Image Differencing but the code was written for java. Kindly look into the below link that may come to help
How to find rectangle of difference between two images
Cheers !
I am trying to use SURF but I am having trouble finding way to do so in C. The documentation only seems to have stuff for C++ in terms of.
I have been able to detect SURF feature:
IplImage *img = cvLoadImage("img5.jpg");
CvMat* image = cvCreateMat(img->height, img->width, CV_8UC1);
cvCvtColor(img, image, CV_BGR2GRAY);
// detecting keypoints
CvSeq *imageKeypoints = 0, *imageDescriptors = 0;
int i;
//Extract SURF points by initializing parameters
CvSURFParams params = cvSURFParams(1, 1);
cvExtractSURF( image, 0, &imageKeypoints, &imageDescriptors, storage, params );
printf("Image Descriptors: %d\n", imageDescriptors->total);
//draw the keypoints on the captured frame
for( i = 0; i < imageKeypoints->total; i++ )
{
CvSURFPoint* r = (CvSURFPoint*)cvGetSeqElem( imageKeypoints, i );
CvPoint center;
int radius;
center.x = cvRound(r->pt.x);
center.y = cvRound(r->pt.y);
radius = cvRound(r->size*1.2/9.*2);
cvCircle( image, center, radius, CV_RGB(0,255,0), 1, 8, 0 );
}
But I can't find the method that I need to compare the descriptors of 2 images. I found this code in C++ but I'm having trouble translating it:
// matching descriptors
BruteForceMatcher<L2<float> > matcher;
vector<DMatch> matches;
matcher.match(descriptors1, descriptors2, matches);
// drawing the results
namedWindow("matches", 1);
Mat img_matches;
drawMatches(img1, keypoints1, img2, keypoints2, matches, img_matches);
imshow("matches", img_matches);
waitKey(0);
I would appreciate if someone could lead me on to a descriptor matcher or even better, let me know where I can find the OpenCV documentation in C only.
This link might give you a hint. https://projects.developer.nokia.com/opencv/browser/opencv/opencv-2.3.1/samples/c/find_obj.cpp . Look in the function naiveNearestNeighbor
Check out the blog post from thioldhack. Contains a sample code. Its for QT, but you can easily do it for VC++ or any other. You will need to match the Key points using K-nearest neighbour algorithm. It has all.
The slightly longer but surest way is to compile OpenCV on your computer with debug information and just to step into the C++ implementation with a debugger. You can also copy it aside to your project and start peeling it like an onion till you get to pure C.
I have successfully implemented face detection part in my Face Recognition project.Now i have a rectangular region of face in an image.Now i have to implement PCA on this detected rectangular region to extract important features.I have used examples of implementing PCA on face databases.I want to know how we can pass our detected face to function implementing PCA?Is it that we pass the rectangle frame?
This is the code for my face detection.
#include "cv.h"
#include "highgui.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <float.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>
// Create a string that contains the exact cascade name
const char* cascade_name =
"haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml";
/* "haarcascade_profileface.xml";*/
// Function prototype for detecting and drawing an object from an image
void detect_and_draw( IplImage* image );
// Main function, defines the entry point for the program.
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
// Create a sample image
IplImage *img = cvLoadImage("Image018.jpg");
if(!img)
{
printf("could not load image");
return -1;
}
// Call the function to detect and draw the face positions
detect_and_draw(img);
// Wait for user input before quitting the program
cvWaitKey();
// Release the image
cvReleaseImage(&img);
// Destroy the window previously created with filename: "result"
cvDestroyWindow("result");
// return 0 to indicate successfull execution of the program
return 0;
}
// Function to detect and draw any faces that is present in an image
void detect_and_draw( IplImage* img )
{
// Create memory for calculations
static CvMemStorage* storage = 0;
// Create a new Haar classifier
static CvHaarClassifierCascade* cascade = 0;
int scale = 1;
// Create a new image based on the input image
IplImage* temp = cvCreateImage( cvSize(img->width/scale,img->height/scale), 8, 3 );
// Create two points to represent the face locations
CvPoint pt1, pt2;
int i;
// Load the HaarClassifierCascade
cascade = (CvHaarClassifierCascade*)cvLoad( cascade_name, 0, 0, 0 );
// Check whether the cascade has loaded successfully. Else report and error and quit
if( !cascade )
{
fprintf( stderr, "ERROR: Could not load classifier cascade\n" );
return;
}
// Allocate the memory storage
storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
// Create a new named window with title: result
cvNamedWindow( "result", 1 );
// Clear the memory storage which was used before
cvClearMemStorage( storage );
// Find whether the cascade is loaded, to find the faces. If yes, then:
if( cascade )
{
// There can be more than one face in an image. So create a growable sequence of faces.
// Detect the objects and store them in the sequence
CvSeq* faces = cvHaarDetectObjects( img, cascade, storage,
1.1, 2, CV_HAAR_DO_CANNY_PRUNING,
cvSize(40, 40) );
// Loop the number of faces found.
for( i = 0; i < (faces ? faces->total : 0); i++ )
{
// Create a new rectangle for drawing the face
CvRect* r = (CvRect*)cvGetSeqElem( faces, i );
// Find the dimensions of the face,and scale it if necessary
pt1.x = r->x*scale;
pt2.x = (r->x+r->width)*scale;
pt1.y = r->y*scale;
pt2.y = (r->y+r->height)*scale;
// Draw the rectangle in the input image
cvRectangle( img, pt1, pt2, CV_RGB(255,0,0), 3, 8, 0 );
}
}
// Show the image in the window named "result"
cvShowImage( "result", img );
// Release the temp image created.
cvReleaseImage( &temp );
}
Edit:
Just to notify anyone visiting this site. I have written some sample code to perform face recognition in videos using my libfacerec library:
https://github.com/bytefish/libfacerec/blob/master/samples/facerec_video.cpp
Original post:
I assume your problem is the following. You've used the Cascade Classifier cv::CascadeClassifier coming with OpenCV to detect and extract faces from images. Now you want to perform a face recognition on the images.
You want to use the Eigenfaces for face recognition. So the first thing you have to do is to learn the Eigenfaces from the images you've gathered. I rewrote the Eigenfaces class for you to make it simpler. To learn the eigenfaces simply pass a vector with your face images and the corresponding labels (the subject) either to Eigenfaces::Eigenfaces or Eigenfaces::compute. Make sure all your images have the same size, you can use cv::resize to ensure this.
Once you have computed the Eigenfaces, you can get predictions from your model. Simply call Eigenfaces::predict on a computed model. The main.cpp shows you how to use the class and its methods (for prediction, projection, reconstruction of images), here's how to get a prediction for an image.
Now I see where your problem is. You are using the old OpenCV C API. That makes it's hard to interface with the new OpenCV2 C++ API my code is written in. Not to be offending, but if you want to interface with my code you better use the OpenCV2 C++ API. I can't give a guide on learning C++ and the OpenCV2 API here, there's a lot of documentation coming with OpenCV. A good start is the OpenCV C++ Cheat Sheet (also available at http://opencv.willowgarage.com/) or the OpenCV Reference Manual.
For recognizing images from the Cascade Detector, I repeat: First learn the Eigenfaces model with the persons you want to recognize, it's shown in the example coming with my code. Then you need to get the Region Of Interest (ROI), that's the face, the Rectangle the Cascade Detector outputs. Finally you can get a prediction for the ROI from the Eigenfaces model (you have computed it above), it's shown in the example coming with my code. You probably have to convert your image to grayscale, but that's all. That's how it's done.