AboutSRIN

Introduction
ProblemStatement
Content Methodology
Overview TheViolaJonesAlgorithm
Results&ErrorAnalysis
ConcludingRemarks
References
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 Computervision modelingandreplicatinghumanvision
usingcomputersoftwareandhardware.
RecognitionProblem determiningwhetherornotthe
imagedatacontains somespecificobject,feature,or
activity
Introduction
Varietiesofrecognitionproblem
Identification identificationofaspecific vehicle
ClassificationGoogleGoggles
Detection detectionofpossible abnormalcellsortissuesin
medicalimages
 Givenaninputimage,determine ifthereareobjectsof
Problem agivenclassintheimageandwheretheyarelocated.
Statement Theclassofobjectstobedetected isthefaceofwild
animals.
 TRAININGSTAGE
OpenCVutilitiesused:

1.create_samples(usedto
generatedatasetand
FeatureVector
extractfeatures)
Methodology Sample
Creation Feature
Classifier
Training
Extraction 2.opencv_traincascade
Training Cascade (usedforclassifier
Dataset Classifier training)
 TESTINGSTAGE OpenCVUtilitiesUsed:

detectMultiScale() returns
boundingboxeswhere
objecthasbeendetected

BoundingBoxes compareHist() returnsa

Test Intensity
Methodology Dataset Classifier Histogram
Matching
valuebetween0and1(one
meaningexactlysame
histograms)
InputImage Classifier Output
Metricusedtodefine
similarityisBhattacharyya
distance:
 ThisObjectdetectionframeworkwasproposedin2001
byPaulViolaandMichaelJones.
Cascade Classifier
Training Itwasprimarilymotivated to providecompetitive
"TheViolaJones objectdetection ratesinrealtime.
Algorithm"
Trainingmightbeslow,butdetectionisfast.
 Afewpropertiescommontohumanfaces:
Theeyeregionisdarkerthantheuppercheeks.
Thenosebridgeregionisbrighterthantheeyes.

TheViola
Jones Algorithm
Rectangular
Features

Source: (Viola, Paul and Michael J. Jones, "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple
Features", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001.
Volume: 1, pp.511518)
 Rectanglefeatures:
Value = (pixels in black area) (pixels in white area)
Threetypes:two,three,fourrectangles,Viola&Jonesused
tworectanglefeatures
Inthefigure,AandBaretworectanglefeatures,Cisthree
rectangleandDfourrectanglefeature.
TheViola
Jones Algorithm
Rectangular
Features

Source: (Viola, Paul and Michael J. Jones, "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple
Features", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, 2001. Volume: 1, pp.511518)
 Astandardimagesubwindowofsize24X24maycontainalargenumber
ofrectanglefeatures.
ViolaandJonessuggestedthataverysmallnumberofthesefeatures can
TheViola becombinedtoformaneffectiveclassifier.
Jones Algorithm Theoverallformofthedetectionprocessis thatofadegeneratedecision
ClassifierLearning tree.

andDetection Apositiveresultfromthefirstclassifiertriggerstheevaluationofa
secondclassifier,andsoon.
Anegativeoutcomeatanypointleadsto theimmediaterejectionofthe
subwindow.
TheViola
Jones Algorithm
Schematic of
DetectionCascade

Source: (Viola, Paul and Michael J. Jones, "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple
Features", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, 2001. Volume: 1, pp.511518)
 [1]Viola,PaulandMichaelJ.Jones,"RapidObjectDetectionusinga
BoostedCascadeofSimpleFeatures",Proceedingsofthe2001IEEE
ComputerSocietyConferenceonComputerVisionandPatternRecognition,
2001.Volume:1,pp.511518.

References [2]Opensource ComputerVision(OpenCV)HaarCascadeDocumentation

(src: http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/objdetect/cascade_classifier/c
ascade_classifier.html)

[3]EclipseIDEDocumentation
(src:http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/)