Face Recognizer

asked 2014-07-24 07:31:44 -0600

updated 2014-07-24 07:37:44 -0600

berak gravatar image

Hello,

I am new to Computer Vision, so please forgive me if the question is a non sense.

I would like to know if one can use the FaceRecognizer<> algorithm wrappers to discern between object 'flavours/classes' which are not faces ?

i.e: I detect a type of bottle (the detection is another topic, lets assume we can detect bottles) in an image. Now i want to train a LBPFaceRecognizer to predict if the detected bottle is a champaign one, or a coke one . Does it make sense to use a LBPFaceRecognizer and train it with champain and coke bottle in order to have a good prediction result?

Thank you

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As long as you can adapt the size of the training images it should be perfectly possible!

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2014-07-24 09:28:46 -0600 )edit

Thanks Steven, in fact if you read the article on which is based the opencv implementation (ahonen & al) one may think that the face recognizer uses uniform patterns and some specific weight for each grids which are optimized for faces textures ... but then if one read http://bytefish.de/blog/local_binary_patterns/ then coder didnt mention those weights and explicitly says that he didnt use uniform patterns, so i got confused really.

tiresias gravatar imagetiresias ( 2014-07-24 14:28:35 -0600 )edit

LBP is a technique that works on every single object. I use it to train object models of fruit, cars, trees, ... It is just a technique that proved it succes in face recognition/detection, just like HAAR wavelets, eigenfaces, fisherfaces, ... but that doesn't mean other object classes cannot benefit from this technique.

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2014-07-25 02:30:50 -0600 )edit
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the current opencv lbph does not exploit uniform patterns to reduce the histogram size. (but you can find a version here, that does)

though bottles don't have much 'shape' features, it might work well with lbph, given:

  • you can (detect and) crop the bottle before, nicely
  • you train with images with the full 360° , so you got both labels and all part views of them covered
berak gravatar imageberak ( 2014-07-25 02:50:26 -0600 )edit

@berak thx for the software link, gonna look into that!

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2014-07-25 03:12:47 -0600 )edit

Thanks to both, berak you mentioned UniformPatterns, but what about weighted grid: does OpenCv inmplementation use weighted grid for the grid histograms?

tiresias gravatar imagetiresias ( 2014-07-25 03:18:19 -0600 )edit
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the main point about the 'uniform' (less than 2 up/down transitions) features is, that there are only 58 possible solutions. so you have a simple precalculated lookup table, that assigns the uniforms to 0..58 and all others to bin 59.

then you only need to check a 59 bin histogram instead of a 256 bin one. speed, size, (accuracy even) improvement. it's some sort of compression/clustering.

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2014-07-25 03:20:29 -0600 )edit

tiresias, it's using a (8x8 by default) grid, and weighted (extended) neighbours, see here

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2014-07-25 03:28:01 -0600 )edit

Berak, i meant the grid weights (.i.e eyes grid are supposed to be more important than the other grids for face recognition) ...

tiresias gravatar imagetiresias ( 2014-07-25 04:16:48 -0600 )edit
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then, no. it's not using a weighted grid. (but definitely worth trying, i'd say.)

again, go and break it. steal those ideas, that fit your scheme, improve, contribute..

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2014-07-25 04:25:11 -0600 )edit