Visual Neural Network recognizer that breaks up an image into digital image features (nose, mouth, etc) to improve accuracy in object recognition.
Questions tagged [haar-classifier]
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OpenCV detectMultiScale() minNeighbors parameter
I'm currently using Haar classifiers, to detect objects.
On my way, I didn't understand what is the minNeighbors parameter, what is
it representing?
Actually I don't understand what are the neighbors of the detection
candidate rectangle. Please can…
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Java and haarcascade face and mouth detection - mouth as the nose
Today I begin to test the project which detects a smile in Java and OpenCv. To recognition face and mouth project used haarcascade_frontalface_alt and haarcascade_mcs_mouth But i don't understand why in some reasons project detect nose as a mouth.…
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OpenCV Haar Classifier result table explanation
I am trying to create a Haar classifier to recognise objects however I can't seem to figure out what the results table that is produced at each stage stands for.
E.g. 1
===== TRAINING 1-stage =====
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Getting the confidence level of detectMultiscale in OpenCV with Python?
I'm using a trained opencv cascade classifier to detect hands in video frames, and would like to lower my false positive rate.
Reading up on the net, I saw you can do so by accessing the
rejectLevels and levelWeights information returned by the…
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Not able to find faces(face-detection) in django (using python-opencv) project
This block of code (in views.py) is triggered by a URL.No problem in importing cv2.(Same thing tried with virtualenvwrapper shows same result (after adding all required libraries) Camera initializes and ....
def caminit(request):
cam.open(0)
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haar cascade positive example image sizing
Im taking my first steps in making a haar cascade for custom object recognition. Ive spent time getting a fair bit of data and wrote some preprocessing scripts to convert videos to frames. My next step is to crop the object of interes in order to…
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OpenCV for Android: failed to load cascade classifier error
This is the first time I use openCV library. I want to use it to detect the eyes. I have used the FdActivity code available in this tutorial:
http://romanhosek.cz/android-eye-detection-updated-for-opencv-2-4-6/
The tutorial uses OpenCV 2.4.6, but I…
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Generating good training data for haar cascades
I am trying to build haar cascades for doing OCR of a specific font; one classifier per character.
I can generate tons of training data just by drawing the font onto images. So, the plan is to generate positive training data for each character, and…
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Haar Training: error (-215)_img.row * _img.cols == vecSize in function
I am trying to train a Haar Cascade to detect hands. I have a vec file of size 1000.
I have 40 positive images and 600 negative images. I have tried both dropping my positive images and negative images. When I run the following command I receive the…
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CascadeClassifier in OpenCV generates error
I am trying to develop a simple application to detect faces as well as eyes in a given image:
from cv2 import *
face_cascade = CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_eye.xml')
img =…
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Recognising objects in images using HAAR cascade and OpenCV
(This came out a bit long, but it's mostly an hardly hard to understand explanation :)
For a project I have I need to recognise objects that, in general form, look like this -
Inside a bigger image that contains different shapes, like this one -…
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Detecting mouth with openCV
I am trying to detect the mouth in an image with openCV, so I am using the following code:
#include "face_detection.h"
using namespace cv;
// Function detectAndDisplay
void detectAndDisplay(const std::string& file_name, cv::CascadeClassifier&…
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Hand detection and tracking methods
So, guys, please help me with detecting/tracking hand for user who are sitting at the computer in front of computer(laptop) frontal camera.
I've tried these methods:
Colour based detection(I've detected the human face by opencv haar cascade face…
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Where to get background/negative sample images for haar training?
I need a collection of sample images to train a Haar-based classifier for plate detection.
I know this question has been asked already, but the source on googlecode is dead.
http://tutorial-haartraining.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/data/negatives/
Where…
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Quick way to distinguish similar objects from each by distinct features on one object
I've made a classifier (based on HoG features) that can recognize big vehicles (buses and trucks). But I want to be able to distinguish between buses and trucks, too. This causes problems since both vehicles are big and long.
Here's a an example…
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