setimage in CascadeClassifier

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Hi, I am trying to evaluate the face detector at only one location. If you look at objdetect.hpp, and the documentation for CascadeClassfier::setimage, there is some difference. According to the documentation, and the implementation the member functions are protected, and cannot be accessed. I have looked at Face recognition, and it is not what I need currently. I know that giving the ROI is one way to do it, but a simple check for time consumed to do this way shows that it take a lot of time. I need a way to evaluate a single window at a time.

Hi, if you really want to evaluate a single window at a time. I only now 2 hacks. The first one is to implement a own class which is derived from CascadeClassifier. You can then access the methods setImage and runAt from this class, since they are protected and not private. The second is to use the detectMultiScale method with your window roi as input image. The detectMultiScale() method downscales the input image by scaleFactor, as long as the detector fits into the downscaled image (see the break condition at line 1147 in http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/repository/revisions/master/entry/modules/objdetect/src/cascadedetect.cpp) If you now put a input image (your roi) with the same size as the maximum object size and a large scaleFactor the method will evaluate only one window.

Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I am using haar cascade classifier and was actually looking at haar.cpp where finally the evaluation takes place. Since, I have to be careful at evaluating the performance (speed, and accuracy) of different approaches, I need to probably modify haar.cpp or write a different class to reach my objective. I just did a quick experiment of using detectMultiScale() with fixed size (min=max), at say random 1000 locations and the result: it took a lot of time compared to processing the full image at one go.

After loading the CascadeClassifier, I call setimage and I get segmentation fault. The sequence of calls are shown below: CascadeClassifier cascade; cascade.load(cascadename); cascade.setimage(gray);

I will go in detail haar.cpp and other files.

It's probably too late, but I did it by creating new class which is derived from CascadeClassifier. Then I implemented metods runAt() and setImage as public for this class and it works.