Tag: OpenCV

#AI – Getting started with #ComputerVision, #DeepLearning, and #OpenCV by Adrian Rosebrock @pyimagesearch

display face landmarks in python using face recognition
display face landmarks in python using face recognition
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Hi!

When you start to research the amazing world of Computer Vision, you find that there are plenty of courses, tutorials, videos and more resources. Something is kind of “too much”, and it’s not easy to choose where to start.

That’s why, when you arrive to one of the Adrian Rosebrock tutorials or articles, they’ll end in one of your favorites bookmarks. He has amazing detailed step by step tutorials, and I learned a lot of Raspberry Pi and OpenCV from his website.

A couple of weeks ago, Adrian released an amazing resource for Computer Vision enthusiasts:

Need help getting started with Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and OpenCV?

No matter if you are starting from zero, have some knowledge or you are already an expert; you must look at this amazing compile of resources. I’ll copy and paste the main topics

And I can’t thanks enough Adrian for his amazing work and also, for sharing all of this!

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

#RaspberryPi – 6 commands to install #OpenCV for #Python in #RaspberryPi4

Hi !

Quick post to remind me the 6 commands to install OpenCV in my Raspberry Pi

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev libhdf5-serial-dev libhdf5-100
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4 libqtwebkit4 libqt4-test
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install libjasper-dev
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py
sudo pip3 install opencv-contrib-python

There is an optional command to update pip, which is always nice.

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

References

My posts on El Bruno

#VSCode – 20 lines to display a webcam camera feed with #Python using #OpenCV

Hi !

I always write this from scratch, so it seems that I’ll drop this one here. So next time I search for this, I’ll find myself.

And with some extra lines, we can even detect faces and display some face landmarks:

This is the base of some many image recognition scenarios, so I hope this will save me some local search time 😀

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

References

My posts on Face Recognition using Python

  1. Detecting Faces with 20 lines in Python
  2. Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  3. Detecting Facial Features with 20 lines in Python
  4. Facial Features and Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  5. Performance improvements with code
  6. More performance improvements, lowering the camera resolution

And some general Python posts

#Anaconda – My steps to install a virtual environment with #TensorFlow, #Keras and more

Hi!

So today post is not a post, just a selfish reminder of the steps I do when I setup a new dev machine

  • Install Anaconda (see references). I use the default settings, and important: I don’t add Anaconda to Windows PATH.
  • Open Anaconda command prompt as administrator
open anaconda as administrator

Need to be open as Admin in order to install updates

  • Install updates with the command
conda update conda 
conda update –all
  • Create a new development environment named “tfEnv” with tensorflow. Activate the environment
conda create -n tfenv tensorflow 
conda activate tfenv
  • The command to install keras is
pip install
keras

However, if it doesn’t work, I install keras with the following packages

pip install matplotlib 
pip install pillow 
pip install tensorflow==1.14 
conda install mingw libpython 
pip install git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git 
pip install git+git://github.com/fchollet/keras.git
  • Finally, install Jupyter notebook kernel and create a new kernel for the current virtual environment
pip install ipykernel 
ipython kernel install --user --name=tfEnv
  • There seems to be an issue to install OpenCV using pip with the command
pip install
opencv-python

So, I Install the OpenCV nonofficial package. 1st I download a compatible package from

https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyopencl

Install with 

pip install
c:\temp\opencv_python-4.1.1-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

References

#Python –Detecting #Hololens in realtime in webcam feed using #ImageAI and #OpenCV (thanks to @OlafenwaMoses)

Hi!

Let’s start with a very quick intro:

During the past months, I’ve been playing around with several Image Analysis tools. And ImageAI (see references) is one that deserves a full series of posts. Please take a look at the product and the source code in GitHub, and also please thank the one behind this: Moses Olafenwa (@OlafenwaMoses).

And now, my 2 cents. I’ve started to test ImageAI to create my own image detection models. Most of the times, this is a hard path to do, however ImageAI show me an interesting option.

… with the latest release of ImageAI v2.1.0, support for training your custom YOLOv3 models to detect literally any kind and number of objects is now fully supported, …

Wow! That’s mean that I can pick up my own set of images dataset and train on top of a YOLOv3 and use it as a trained model. Again, this is amazing.

So, I started to read the article [Train Object Detection AI with 6 lines of code, see references] where Olafenwa explains how to do this using a data set with almost 500 rows with images for Hololens and Oculus Rift.

The code is very simple and easy to read. There are also examples on how to analyze a single file, or a video, or even a camera feed. The output for the analysis can be also in a new file, in a processed video or even a full log file with the detected information.

I started to read the code samples and I realized that I’m missing a scenario:

Display the realtime feed from a webcam, analyze each webcam frame and if a device is found, add a frame to the realtime feed to display this.

I use OpenCV to access to my camera, and it took me some time to figure out how to convert my OpenCV2 camera frame to the format needed by ImageAI. At the end, thanks to the GitHub code I manage to create this (very slow but working) demo

As usual in this scenario, now it’s time to improve the performance and start testing with some tweaks to get a decent up and running App.

And of course, the code

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

Resources

#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python (6/N)

Hi !

I’ll start with my posts

  1. Detecting Faces with 20 lines in Python
  2. Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  3. Detecting Facial Features with 20 lines in Python
  4. Facial Features and Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  5. Performance improvements with code

In my last post I share some lines of code which allowed me to run some of the face recognition demos 6 times faster. I added a Frames per Second (FPS) feature in my samples. Later, thinking about performance, I realize that I don’t need to work with a full HD picture (1920 x 1080), so I added some code to resize the photo before the face detection process.

However, while I was coding arond this solution I also realized that I may want to initialize my camera to start in a lower resolution. So, I searched online on how to do this with OpenCV and I found 3 beautiful lines of code.

open camera with opencv with lower resolution

So, I manage to improve my processing code from 20FPS to +30FPS … which is very good ! Later on this posts I’ll try to do some similar FPS tests on a smaller device and I’ll see and share how this works.

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

Resources

#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python (4/N)

Hi !

Quick post today. I’ll pickup yesterday demo, showing the facial features and adding Face Recognition on top of that. In other words, we’ll move from this

To this

With a couple of extra lines for face recognition

There is some room for performance improvement, so I’ll focus on this in next posts.

The complete project is available here https://github.com/elbruno/Blog/tree/master/20190528%20Python%20FaceRecognition

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

Resources

My Posts

  1. Detecting Faces with 20 lines in Python
  2. Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python
  3. Detecting Facial Features with 20 lines in Python