OpenCV  4.0.0-beta
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Face Analysis

Classes

class  cv::face::BasicFaceRecognizer
 
struct  cv::face::CParams
 
class  cv::face::EigenFaceRecognizer
 
class  cv::face::FacemarkAAM
 
class  cv::face::FacemarkLBF
 
class  cv::face::FacemarkTrain
 Abstract base class for trainable facemark models. More...
 
class  cv::face::FaceRecognizer
 Abstract base class for all face recognition models. More...
 
class  cv::face::FisherFaceRecognizer
 
class  cv::face::LBPHFaceRecognizer
 
class  cv::face::MACE
 Minimum Average Correlation Energy Filter useful for authentication with (cancellable) biometrical features. (does not need many positives to train (10-50), and no negatives at all, also robust to noise/salting) More...
 
class  cv::face::PredictCollector
 Abstract base class for all strategies of prediction result handling. More...
 
class  cv::face::StandardCollector
 Default predict collector. More...
 

Typedefs

typedef bool(* cv::face::FN_FaceDetector) (InputArray, OutputArray, void *userData)
 

Functions

void cv::face::drawFacemarks (InputOutputArray image, InputArray points, Scalar color=Scalar(255, 0, 0))
 Utility to draw the detected facial landmark points. More...
 
bool cv::face::getFaces (InputArray image, OutputArray faces, CParams *params)
 Default face detector This function is mainly utilized by the implementation of a Facemark Algorithm. End users are advised to use function Facemark::getFaces which can be manually defined and circumvented to the algorithm by Facemark::setFaceDetector. More...
 
bool cv::face::getFacesHAAR (InputArray image, OutputArray faces, const String &face_cascade_name)
 
bool cv::face::loadDatasetList (String imageList, String annotationList, std::vector< String > &images, std::vector< String > &annotations)
 A utility to load list of paths to training image and annotation file. More...
 
bool cv::face::loadFacePoints (String filename, OutputArray points, float offset=0.0f)
 A utility to load facial landmark information from a given file. More...
 
bool cv::face::loadTrainingData (String filename, std::vector< String > &images, OutputArray facePoints, char delim=' ', float offset=0.0f)
 A utility to load facial landmark dataset from a single file. More...
 
bool cv::face::loadTrainingData (String imageList, String groundTruth, std::vector< String > &images, OutputArray facePoints, float offset=0.0f)
 A utility to load facial landmark information from the dataset. More...
 
bool cv::face::loadTrainingData (std::vector< String > filename, std::vector< std::vector< Point2f > > &trainlandmarks, std::vector< String > &trainimages)
 This function extracts the data for training from .txt files which contains the corresponding image name and landmarks. The first file in each file should give the path of the image whose landmarks are being described in the file. Then in the subsequent lines there should be coordinates of the landmarks in the image i.e each line should be of the form x,y where x represents the x coordinate of the landmark and y represents the y coordinate of the landmark. More...
 

Detailed Description

Typedef Documentation

§ FN_FaceDetector

typedef bool(* cv::face::FN_FaceDetector) (InputArray, OutputArray, void *userData)

Function Documentation

§ drawFacemarks()

void cv::face::drawFacemarks ( InputOutputArray  image,
InputArray  points,
Scalar  color = Scalar(255, 0, 0) 
)
Python:
image=cv.face.drawFacemarks(image, points[, color])

Utility to draw the detected facial landmark points.

Parameters
imageThe input image to be processed.
pointsContains the data of points which will be drawn.
colorThe color of points in BGR format represented by cv::Scalar.

Example of usage

std::vector<Rect> faces;
std::vector<std::vector<Point2f> > landmarks;
facemark->getFaces(img, faces);
facemark->fit(img, faces, landmarks);
for(int j=0;j<rects.size();j++){
face::drawFacemarks(frame, landmarks[j], Scalar(0,0,255));
}

§ getFaces()

bool cv::face::getFaces ( InputArray  image,
OutputArray  faces,
CParams params 
)

Default face detector This function is mainly utilized by the implementation of a Facemark Algorithm. End users are advised to use function Facemark::getFaces which can be manually defined and circumvented to the algorithm by Facemark::setFaceDetector.

Parameters
imageThe input image to be processed.
facesOutput of the function which represent region of interest of the detected faces. Each face is stored in cv::Rect container.
paramsdetector parameters

Example of usage

std::vector<cv::Rect> faces;
CParams params("haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml");
cv::face::getFaces(frame, faces, &params);
for(int j=0;j<faces.size();j++){
cv::rectangle(frame, faces[j], cv::Scalar(255,0,255));
}
cv::imshow("detection", frame);

§ getFacesHAAR()

bool cv::face::getFacesHAAR ( InputArray  image,
OutputArray  faces,
const String face_cascade_name 
)
Python:
retval, faces=cv.face.getFacesHAAR(image, face_cascade_name[, faces])

§ loadDatasetList()

bool cv::face::loadDatasetList ( String  imageList,
String  annotationList,
std::vector< String > &  images,
std::vector< String > &  annotations 
)
Python:
retval=cv.face.loadDatasetList(imageList, annotationList, images, annotations)

A utility to load list of paths to training image and annotation file.

Parameters
imageListThe specified file contains paths to the training images.
annotationListThe specified file contains paths to the training annotations.
imagesThe loaded paths of training images.
annotationsThe loaded paths of annotation files.

Example of usage:

String imageFiles = "images_path.txt";
String ptsFiles = "annotations_path.txt";
std::vector<String> images_train;
std::vector<String> landmarks_train;
loadDatasetList(imageFiles,ptsFiles,images_train,landmarks_train);

§ loadFacePoints()

bool cv::face::loadFacePoints ( String  filename,
OutputArray  points,
float  offset = 0.0f 
)
Python:
retval, points=cv.face.loadFacePoints(filename[, points[, offset]])

A utility to load facial landmark information from a given file.

Parameters
filenameThe filename of file contains the facial landmarks data.
pointsThe loaded facial landmark points.
offsetAn offset value to adjust the loaded points.

Example of usage

std::vector<Point2f> points;
face::loadFacePoints("filename.txt", points, 0.0f);

The annotation file should follow the default format which is

version: 1
n_points: 68
{
212.716603 499.771793
230.232816 566.290071
...
}

where n_points is the number of points considered and each point is represented as its position in x and y.

§ loadTrainingData() [1/3]

bool cv::face::loadTrainingData ( String  filename,
std::vector< String > &  images,
OutputArray  facePoints,
char  delim = ' ',
float  offset = 0.0f 
)
Python:
retval, facePoints=cv.face.loadTrainingData(filename, images[, facePoints[, delim[, offset]]])
retval, facePoints=cv.face.loadTrainingData(imageList, groundTruth, images[, facePoints[, offset]])
retval=cv.face.loadTrainingData(filename, trainlandmarks, trainimages)

A utility to load facial landmark dataset from a single file.

Parameters
filenameThe filename of a file that contains the dataset information. Each line contains the filename of an image followed by pairs of x and y values of facial landmarks points separated by a space. Example
/home/user/ibug/image_003_1.jpg 336.820955 240.864510 334.238298 260.922709 335.266918 ...
/home/user/ibug/image_005_1.jpg 376.158428 230.845712 376.736984 254.924635 383.265403 ...
imagesA vector where each element represent the filename of image in the dataset. Images are not loaded by default to save the memory.
facePointsThe loaded landmark points for all training data.
delimDelimiter between each element, the default value is a whitespace.
offsetAn offset value to adjust the loaded points.

Example of usage

cv::String imageFiles = "../data/images_train.txt";
cv::String ptsFiles = "../data/points_train.txt";
std::vector<String> images;
std::vector<std::vector<Point2f> > facePoints;
loadTrainingData(imageFiles, ptsFiles, images, facePoints, 0.0f);

§ loadTrainingData() [2/3]

bool cv::face::loadTrainingData ( String  imageList,
String  groundTruth,
std::vector< String > &  images,
OutputArray  facePoints,
float  offset = 0.0f 
)
Python:
retval, facePoints=cv.face.loadTrainingData(filename, images[, facePoints[, delim[, offset]]])
retval, facePoints=cv.face.loadTrainingData(imageList, groundTruth, images[, facePoints[, offset]])
retval=cv.face.loadTrainingData(filename, trainlandmarks, trainimages)

A utility to load facial landmark information from the dataset.

Parameters
imageListA file contains the list of image filenames in the training dataset.
groundTruthA file contains the list of filenames where the landmarks points information are stored. The content in each file should follow the standard format (see face::loadFacePoints).
imagesA vector where each element represent the filename of image in the dataset. Images are not loaded by default to save the memory.
facePointsThe loaded landmark points for all training data.
offsetAn offset value to adjust the loaded points.

Example of usage

cv::String imageFiles = "../data/images_train.txt";
cv::String ptsFiles = "../data/points_train.txt";
std::vector<String> images;
std::vector<std::vector<Point2f> > facePoints;
loadTrainingData(imageFiles, ptsFiles, images, facePoints, 0.0f);

example of content in the images_train.txt

/home/user/ibug/image_003_1.jpg
/home/user/ibug/image_004_1.jpg
/home/user/ibug/image_005_1.jpg
/home/user/ibug/image_006.jpg

example of content in the points_train.txt

/home/user/ibug/image_003_1.pts
/home/user/ibug/image_004_1.pts
/home/user/ibug/image_005_1.pts
/home/user/ibug/image_006.pts

§ loadTrainingData() [3/3]

bool cv::face::loadTrainingData ( std::vector< String filename,
std::vector< std::vector< Point2f > > &  trainlandmarks,
std::vector< String > &  trainimages 
)
Python:
retval, facePoints=cv.face.loadTrainingData(filename, images[, facePoints[, delim[, offset]]])
retval, facePoints=cv.face.loadTrainingData(imageList, groundTruth, images[, facePoints[, offset]])
retval=cv.face.loadTrainingData(filename, trainlandmarks, trainimages)

This function extracts the data for training from .txt files which contains the corresponding image name and landmarks. The first file in each file should give the path of the image whose landmarks are being described in the file. Then in the subsequent lines there should be coordinates of the landmarks in the image i.e each line should be of the form x,y where x represents the x coordinate of the landmark and y represents the y coordinate of the landmark.

For reference you can see the files as provided in the HELEN dataset

Parameters
filenameA vector of type cv::String containing name of the .txt files.
trainlandmarksA vector of type cv::Point2f that would store shape or landmarks of all images.
trainimagesA vector of type cv::String which stores the name of images whose landmarks are tracked
Returns
A boolean value. It returns true when it reads the data successfully and false otherwise