Unsupervised Face Clustering in opencv

asked 2015-09-17 09:07:43 -0600

adjorlu gravatar image

updated 2015-09-18 03:57:13 -0600

I have implemented the following using opencv algorithms:

  1. Face detection using haar-cascade. saving the cropped and re-size face image in a folder.
  2. Manually clustering the faces in their own folder. Jonas faces will go in "Jonas" folder and Pernilles faces go into "Pernille" folder manually.
  3. code that automatically creates a CSV file based on the folder structure. A csv file to be used by a face recognition algorithm to train on
  4. Eigenfaces that trains on the database and can recognize those faces. this performs really well!

My problem is step 2. I want the system to run without any supervision. So what can I do to place each face in its own specific folder without me having to manually placing "Jonas" in a "Jonas" folder and "Pernille" in the "Pernille" folder. In other words, how can I get a unsupervised face clustering op and running in OpenCV? :)

A similar solution to the suggested [unsupervised face clustering].(http://bitsearch.blogspot.dk/2013/02/unsupervised-face-clustering-with-opencv.html)
However their proposed solution, as they state it in the blog is not working properly.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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IMHO you should apply your recognition algorithm and based on its prediction do the sort. For saving images you may use imwrite

thdrksdfthmn gravatar imagethdrksdfthmn ( 2015-09-17 11:01:12 -0600 )edit
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some things to try (just don't expect more than 80% accuracy, still some manual work nessecary):

  • kmeans (supervised, but good if you halfway know K)
  • EM . do a full train(), and just don't give it any K. (should result in a list of labels)
  • partition - obviously, the distance function is crucial (needs a lot of 'trying out')
  • i've seen some blog post somewhere, abusing opencv's (LBPH) face recognition like in - add a picture and a (dummy) label in update(), see what the prediction returns, adjust the label.
berak gravatar imageberak ( 2015-09-17 17:51:09 -0600 )edit

Thansk guys! However, I need a completely unsupervised methods such as the one described [in this blog]. (Perhas this is what you refer to Berak? (http://bitsearch.blogspot.dk/2013/02/...)

However, their solution is not performing good enough.

adjorlu gravatar imageadjorlu ( 2015-09-18 03:47:53 -0600 )edit

yes, exactly. that's what i meant with option 4.

"However, their solution is not performing good enough." - yes, my experience, too.

again, this is a real hard problem, solving it properly would be phd stuff ;) (or say, same amount of work)

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2015-09-18 03:58:23 -0600 )edit
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Funny you mention it, I have actually applied for phd funding for a project that might require this unsupervised :)

Hopefully a suitable solution will come up soon...

adjorlu gravatar imageadjorlu ( 2015-09-18 04:50:01 -0600 )edit
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