#!/usr/bin/python
# The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt
#
# This example program shows how you can use dlib to make an object
# detector for things like faces, pedestrians, and any other semi-rigid
# object. In particular, we go though the steps to train the kind of sliding
# window object detector first published by Dalal and Triggs in 2005 in the
# paper Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection.
#
#
# COMPILING/INSTALLING THE DLIB PYTHON INTERFACE
# You can install dlib using the command:
# pip install dlib
#
# Alternatively, if you want to compile dlib yourself then go into the dlib
# root folder and run:
# python setup.py install
# or
# python setup.py install --yes USE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS
# if you have a CPU that supports AVX instructions, since this makes some
# things run faster.
#
# Compiling dlib should work on any operating system so long as you have
# CMake and boost-python installed. On Ubuntu, this can be done easily by
# running the command:
# sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev cmake
#
# Also note that this example requires scikit-image which can be installed
# via the command:
# pip install scikit-image
# Or downloaded from http://scikit-image.org/download.html.
import os
import sys
import glob
import dlib
from skimage import io
# In this example we are going to train a face detector based on the small
# faces dataset in the examples/faces directory. This means you need to supply
# the path to this faces folder as a command line argument so we will know
# where it is.
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print(
"Give the path to the examples/faces directory as the argument to this "
"program. For example, if you are in the python_examples folder then "
"execute this program by running:\n"
" ./train_object_detector.py ../examples/faces")
exit()
faces_folder = sys.argv[1]
# Now let's do the training. The train_simple_object_detector() function has a
# bunch of options, all of which come with reasonable default values. The next
# few lines goes over some of these options.
options = dlib.simple_object_detector_training_options()
# Since faces are left/right symmetric we can tell the trainer to train a
# symmetric detector. This helps it get the most value out of the training
# data.
options.add_left_right_image_flips = True
# The trainer is a kind of support vector machine and therefore has the usual
# SVM C parameter. In general, a bigger C encourages it to fit the training
# data better but might lead to overfitting. You must find the best C value
# empirically by checking how well the trained detector works on a test set of
# images you haven't trained on. Don't just leave the value set at 5. Try a
# few different C values and see what works best for your data.
options.C = 5
# Tell the code how many CPU cores your computer has for the fastest training.
options.num_threads = 4
options.be_verbose = True
training_xml_path = os.path.join(faces_folder, "training.xml")
testing_xml_path = os.path.join(faces_folder, "testing.xml")
# This function does the actual training. It will save the final detector to
# detector.svm. The input is an XML file that lists the images in the training
# dataset and also contains the positions of the face boxes. To create your
# own XML files you can use the imglab tool which can be found in the
# tools/imglab folder. It is a simple graphical tool for labeling objects in
# images with boxes. To see how to use it read the tools/imglab/README.txt
# file. But for this example, we just use the training.xml file included with
# dlib.
dlib.train_simple_object_detector(training_xml_path, "detector.svm", options)
# Now that we have a face detector we can test it. The first statement tests
# it on the training data. It will print(the precision, recall, and then)
# average precision.
print("") # Print blank line to create gap from previous output
print("Training accuracy: {}".format(
dlib.test_simple_object_detector(training_xml_path, "detector.svm")))
# However, to get an idea if it really worked without overfitting we need to
# run it on images it wasn't trained on. The next line does this. Happily, we
# see that the object detector works perfectly on the testing images.
print("Testing accuracy: {}".format(
dlib.test_simple_object_detector(testing_xml_path, "detector.svm")))
# Now let's use the detector as you would in a normal application. First we
# will load it from disk.
detector = dlib.simple_object_detector("detector.svm")
# We can look at the HOG filter we learned. It should look like a face. Neat!
win_det = dlib.image_window()
win_det.set_image(detector)
# Now let's run the detector over the images in the faces folder and display the
# results.
print("Showing detections on the images in the faces folder...")
win = dlib.image_window()
for f in glob.glob(os.path.join(faces_folder, "*.jpg")):
print("Processing file: {}".format(f))
img = io.imread(f)
dets = detector(img)
print("Number of faces detected: {}".format(len(dets)))
for k, d in enumerate(dets):
print("Detection {}: Left: {} Top: {} Right: {} Bottom: {}".format(
k, d.left(), d.top(), d.right(), d.bottom()))
win.clear_overlay()
win.set_image(img)
win.add_overlay(dets)
dlib.hit_enter_to_continue()
# Finally, note that you don't have to use the XML based input to
# train_simple_object_detector(). If you have already loaded your training
# images and bounding boxes for the objects then you can call it as shown
# below.
# You just need to put your images into a list.
images = [io.imread(faces_folder + '/2008_002506.jpg'),
io.imread(faces_folder + '/2009_004587.jpg')]
# Then for each image you make a list of rectangles which give the pixel
# locations of the edges of the boxes.
boxes_img1 = ([dlib.rectangle(left=329, top=78, right=437, bottom=186),
dlib.rectangle(left=224, top=95, right=314, bottom=185),
dlib.rectangle(left=125, top=65, right=214, bottom=155)])
boxes_img2 = ([dlib.rectangle(left=154, top=46, right=228, bottom=121),
dlib.rectangle(left=266, top=280, right=328, bottom=342)])
# And then you aggregate those lists of boxes into one big list and then call
# train_simple_object_detector().
boxes = [boxes_img1, boxes_img2]
detector2 = dlib.train_simple_object_detector(images, boxes, options)
# We could save this detector to disk by uncommenting the following.
#detector2.save('detector2.svm')
# Now let's look at its HOG filter!
win_det.set_image(detector2)
dlib.hit_enter_to_continue()
# Note that you don't have to use the XML based input to
# test_simple_object_detector(). If you have already loaded your training
# images and bounding boxes for the objects then you can call it as shown
# below.
print("\nTraining accuracy: {}".format(
dlib.test_simple_object_detector(images, boxes, detector2)))