How to increase the accuracy of EigenFaceRecognizer, it recognizes two people as one?
I'm trying to recognize frontal faces using EigenFaceRecognizer in C++.
The problem is:
1) at high threshold, two people are recognized as same person and a "NEW" face is also recognized, instead of stating it as a new face
2) at low thresholds, a face already in the training set is recognized as a new face
3) False Positives are also encountered. Though not a concern but if an easy way is suggested to decrease them it will be appreciated>
Is there any way to improve the recognizer to identify faces accurately?
Following is what I am doing.
#include"Header.h"
#include<opencv2\opencv.hpp> //For opencv functions
#include<opencv2\highgui\highgui.hpp> //For window based functions
#include<fstream> //For dealing with I/O operations on file
using namespace std;
using namespace cv;
// Function to read the File containing paths and labels of the training images and push them into images and labels vector
static void read_data(vector <Mat> & images,vector <int>& labels, char separator=' ')
{
ifstream file("images.txt"); //images.txt contains paths and labels separated by a space
string line;
string a[2];
while(getline(file,line)) // read images.txt line by line
{
int i=0;
stringstream iss(line);
while (iss.good() && i < 2)
{
iss>>a[i];
++i;
}
images.push_back(imread(a[0],CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE)); // a[0] = "path of images"
labels.push_back(atoi(a[1].c_str())); //a[1] = "labels"
}
file.close();
}
// Function to take input from webcam and recognize faces
int face_recognition::face_rec(int time_flag, int trigger_flag)
{
vector<Mat> images; //stores the paths of all images
vector<int> labels; //stores the corresponding labels
//function call to function read_data
read_data(images,labels);
//take the size of the sample images
int im_width = images[0].cols;
int im_height = images[0].rows;
//threshold is the minimum value of magnitude of vector of EigenFaces
double threshold=10.0;
//create instance of EigenFaceRecognizer
Ptr<FaceRecognizer> model = createEigenFaceRecognizer(10,threshold);
double current_threshold =model->getDouble("threshold");
// set a threshold value, for face prediction
model->set("threshold",5000.0);
// train the face recognizer using the sample images
model->train(images,labels);
// Create face_cascade to detect people
CascadeClassifier face_cascade;
if(!face_cascade.load("haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml")) // load haarcascade_frontaface_default.xml
{
cout<<"ERROR Loading cascade file";
return 1;
}
// capture the video input from webcam
VideoCapture capture(CV_CAP_ANY);
capture.set(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 320);
capture.set(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 240);
Size frameSize(static_cast<int>(320), static_cast<int>(240));
//initialize the VideoWriter object
VideoWriter oVideoWriter ("MyVideo.avi", CV_FOURCC('P','I','M','1'), 20, frameSize, true); // video is save in the VS project
if(!capture.isOpened())
{
cout<<"Error in camera";
return 1;
}
Mat cap_img, gray_img;
//store the detected faces
vector<Rect> faces;
while(1)
{
//capture frame by frame in cap_img
capture>>cap_img;
waitKey(10);
// Image conversion: Color to Gray
cvtColor(cap_img,gray_img,CV_BGR2GRAY);
//Histogram Equilization to increase contrast by stretching intensity ranges
equalizeHist(gray_img,gray_img);
// detects faces in the frame
//CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE to scale the size of the detect face
//CV_HAAR_DO_CANNY_PRUNING to increase speed as it skips image regions that are unlikely to contain a face
face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray_img,faces,1 ...