Slow OclCascadeClassifier::detectMultiScale()

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Hi,

I have a simple demo application that detect faces in video using OclCascadeClassifier from OpenCL module. The problem is that the detectMultiScale() is really slow. First, I suspected the oclMat::upload() method, but it seems that the bottle neck is the detections itself.

Here is my code:

#include <opencv2/ocl/ocl.hpp>
#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <QDateTime>
#include <QDebug>

int main()
{
    cv::ocl::OclCascadeClassifier detector;
    detector.load("/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml");
    cv::VideoCapture capture(0);
    cv::Mat frame;
    std::vector<cv::Rect> faces;
    cv::ocl::oclMat oclFrame;

    int counter = 0;
    double uploadTime = 0;
    double detectTime = 0;
    int N = 500;
    while (counter < N && capture.read(frame))
    {
        QDateTime beforeUpload = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
        oclFrame.upload(frame);
        QDateTime afterUpload = QDateTime::currentDateTime();

        detector.detectMultiScale(oclFrame, faces);
        QDateTime afteDetect = QDateTime::currentDateTime();

        uploadTime += beforeUpload.msecsTo(afterUpload);
        detectTime += afterUpload.msecsTo(afteDetect);

        for (const auto &r : faces)
            cv::rectangle(frame, r, cv::Scalar(0, 255, 0));

        cv::imshow("test", frame);
        cv::waitKey(1);
        counter++;
    }

    uploadTime /= N;
    detectTime /= N;

    qDebug() << "uploadTime:" << uploadTime;
    qDebug() << "detectTime:" << detectTime;
}

And this is the output:

uploadTime: 0.928
detectTime: 517.494

BTW I have nVidia GeForce GT 640M with proper driver.

Thanks. Stepan