Face Recognition on Android

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Update: I have found a blog post, that shows how to use the FaceRecognizer with JavaCV:

• http://tech.thecoolblogs.com/2012/10/creating-lbph-local-binary-pattern.html

Original Post: Without ever having used javacv, let's see how far we can get by just looking at the interfaces! The project is on googlecode, which makes it easy to browse the code: http://code.google.com/p/javacv.

First have a look at how cv::FaceRecognizer has been wrapped (opencv_contrib.java, line 845 at time of writing this):

@Namespace("cv") public static class FaceRecognizer extends Algorithm {
    static { Loader.load(); }
    public FaceRecognizer() { }
    public FaceRecognizer(Pointer p) { super(p); }

    public /*abstract*/ native void train(@ByRef MatVector src, @Adapter("ArrayAdapter") CvArr labels);
    public /*abstract*/ native int predict(@Adapter("ArrayAdapter") CvArr src);
    public /*abstract*/ native void predict(@Adapter("ArrayAdapter") CvArr src, @ByRef int[] label, @ByRef double[] dist);
    public native void save(String filename);
    public native void load(String filename);
    public native void save(@Adapter("FileStorageAdapter") CvFileStorage fs);
    public native void load(@Adapter("FileStorageAdapter") CvFileStorage fs);
}

Aha, so you need to pass a MatVector for the images! You can pass the labels in a CvArr (one row or one column). The MatVector is defined in opencv_core, line 4629 (at time of writing this) and it looks like this:

public static class MatVector extends Pointer {
    static { load(); }
    public MatVector()       { allocate();  }
    public MatVector(long n) { allocate(n); }
    public MatVector(Pointer p) { super(p); }
    private native void allocate();
    private native void allocate(@Cast("size_t") long n);

    public native long size();
    public native void resize(@Cast("size_t") long n);

    @Index @ValueGetter public native @Adapter("MatAdapter") CvMat getCvMat(@Cast("size_t") long i);
    @Index @ValueGetter public native @Adapter("MatAdapter") CvMatND getCvMatND(@Cast("size_t") long i);
    @Index @ValueGetter public native @Adapter("MatAdapter") IplImage getIplImage(@Cast("size_t") long i);
    @Index @ValueSetter public native MatVector put(@Cast("size_t") long i, @Adapter("MatAdapter") CvArr value);
}

Again just by looking at the code, I guess it can be used like this:

int numberOfImages = 10;
// Allocate some memory:
MatVector images = new MatVector(numberOfImages);
// Then fill the MatVector, you probably want to do something useful instead:
for(int idx = 0; idx < numberOfImages; idx++){
   // Load an image:
   CvArr image = cvLoadImage("/path/to/your/image");
   // And put it into the MatVector:
   images.put(idx, image);
}

You probably want to write yourself a method that does the conversion from a Java ArrayList to a MatVector (if such a function does not exist in javacv yet).

Now to your second question. FaceRecognizer is the equivalent to cv::FaceRecognizer. The native OpenCV C++ classes return a cv::Ptr<cv::FaceRecognizer>, which is a (Smart) Pointer to a cv::FaceRecognizer. This has to be wrapped as well. See a pattern here?

The interface of FaceRecognizerPtr now looks like this:

@Name("cv::Ptr<cv::FaceRecognizer>")
public static class FaceRecognizerPtr extends Pointer {
    static { load(); }
    public FaceRecognizerPtr()       { allocate();  }
    public FaceRecognizerPtr(Pointer p) { super(p); }
    private native void allocate();

    public native FaceRecognizer get();
    public native FaceRecognizerPtr put(FaceRecognizer value);
}

So you can either get a FaceRecognizer from this class or put a ... (more)