How to count the number of faces detected in live video by openCV using python?
I need to count the number of faces in a video taken from webcam.For example,if I am standing in front of the camera then count=1,now if any other person is detected then count=2,if another person is detected then the count should be 3.
This is the code:
import cv2
import sys
cascPath = sys.argv[1]
faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cascPath)
video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while True:
# Capture frame-by-frame
ret, frame = video_capture.read()
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale(
gray,
scaleFactor=1.1,
minNeighbors=5,
minSize=(30, 30),
flags=cv2.cv.CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE
)
# Draw a rectangle around the faces
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(frame, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
# Display the resulting frame
cv2.imshow('Video', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
video_capture.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
I am using frontal_face_haarcascade.xml by opencv in python. I can detect faces in frame and then increase the count, but what's happening is that the count is increasing as the number of frames.So, even if 1 person was detected standing for 10 sec, it shows count as some '67'
How can I overcome this problem.
are you looking for the number of unique faces encountered in the video ?
(then, face detection alone won't solve your problem)
Since you are only talking about detection, it can simply be done by using a decent face detector and returning
detections.size()
considering you have avector<Rect>
that stores the output ofdetectMultiScale
. If you want unique IDs, you will have to create a feature representation of each face, calculate a similarity threshold. Once above, a new face is added, else you match it to one already in your database.