Tag: Python

#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python (5/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

And after yesterday’s post I realize that the code is working, but there is room for performance improvement. So, I went back to my 1st sample, the one for face detection and I added some code to get some times for Frames per Second (FPS).

In my initial code, the app was working processing almost 6 FPS. Then I started to read the code and think on improvements and I manage to get an amazing +30FPS.

So, before moving forward, I want to remark this StackOverflow post that quickly pointed me in the easiest way to do a StopWatch in Python.

My original code, was this one:

And then, I realize that I may use some of the OpenCV functions to increase the face detection process. I really don’t need to process a full HD image (1920 x 1080), I may resize the frame to a quarter size and work with this. That’s how, based on some of the samples, I got the following code:

The line 12 perform the initial resize and then I recalculate back the positions before drawing the face frame. This process works almost 6 times faster than the original one.

I’ll continue improving the code and samples, and sharing my learning path !

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

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#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

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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

#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python (3/N)

Hi !

In my previous posts I explained how to detect faces and perform face recognition in python. Today I’ll explore another feature in the face_recognition package: Find Facial Features.

The live camera output will be something like this:

Note: Special thanks to my daughter who is always OK to help me with this.

The main sample in the source code uses a photo to detect facial features and creates a new one with the features detected. In the following sample, is amazing to check that it detect a far away face behind the main ones and also, somehow, it detect some landmarks behind my girl glasses:

I wanted to see how fast this library work to perform this with a live camera feed, and the results are very good.

I spend sometime figuring out the best way to draw lines with OpenCV, at the end the PolyLine() function is the one doing all the magic (lines 14 to 17). It took me sometime, to find the best way to deal with matrix transformations and some other performance tricks, but at the end I get this up and running in 25 lines which is kind of amazing. And the final code is very simple:

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

#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python (2/N)

Hi !

Yesterday I explained how to write a couple of lines in Python to perform live face detection in a webcam feed [Post]. Check the resources section to find more about the tools I’m using.

Today, I’ll add some more code to perform face recognition. And as usual, I’ll work with my kids to test this out. I’ll start adding 2 face encodings for Valentino and myself. The code is simple enough, and I use a simple 300×300 head-shot photo to train and get the face encoding.

The previous function returns an set of arrays with the face encodings and the face names. In the complete file, I’ll use this to analyze the camera frame (line 31) and later to check the matches for faces (lines 34 * 36)

Last lines are cosmetic to mostly draw the frames for the detected faces, and show the names.

The complete project is available here https://github.com/elbruno/Blog/tree/master/20190521%20Python%20FaceRecognition

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

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My Posts

#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python

Hi !

I’ve write a lot about how to use AI models in C# to perform tasks like Face recognition, speech analysis, and more. During the Chicago CodeCamp, someone ask me about how to perform Face Recognition in Python. I didn’t have any working sample to showcase this, and I failed in try to write a 2 min app. So I added this into my ToDo list.

For this demo I’ll use Anaconda as the base Python distribution and Visual Studio Code as the code editor. There are several packages to perform face detection in Python. I’ll use a mix between OpenCV and Adam Geitgey Face Recognition package to use the camera and detect and recognize faces.

I’ll start by installing some packages to use in python app: dlib, openCV and face_recognition

"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/Shared/Anaconda3_86/python.exe" -m pip install dlib --user  

"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/Shared/Anaconda3_86/python.exe" -m pip install face_recognition --user

"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/Shared/Anaconda3_86/python.exe" -m pip install opencv-python --user

And, the first step will be to detect faces and draw frames around them. All of this in 20 lines of code

When we run the app, we will see the camera feed and frames around the detected faces. In my next post I’ll add some extra code to perform face recognition.

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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#Event – Resources for the sessions about #DeepLearning and #CustomVision at the @ChicagoCodeCamp

Hi!

Another post-event post, this time with a big thanks to the team behind one of the most amazing event I’ve been this year: Chicago CodeCamp.

I had the chance to meet a lot of amazing people, to learn a lot during the sessions and also to visit the great city of Chicago.

As usual, now it’s time to share slides, code and more.

Deep Learning for Everyone? Challenge Accepted!

Let’s start with the Deep Learning resources


Demos Source Code: https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/master/2019%2005%2011%20Chicago%20CodeCamp%20Deep%20Learning

Session: How a PoC at home can scale to Enterprise Level using Custom Vision APIs

And also the [How a PoC at home can scale to Enterprise Level using Custom Vision APIs] resources

Demos Source Code: https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/master/2019%2005%2011%20Chicago%20CodeCamp%20CustomVision

And finally, some Machine Learning.Net, Deep Learning and Custom Vision resources:

My posts on Custom Vision and ONNX

  1. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using WinML
  2. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using WinML
  3. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using Windows ML, drawing frames
  4. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using Windows ML, calculate FPS
  5. Can’t install Docker on Windows 10 Home, need Pro or Enterprise
  6. Running a Custom Vision project in a local Docker Container
  7. Analyzing images in a Console App using a Custom Vision project in a Docker Container
  8. Analyzing images using PostMan from a Custom Vision project hosted in a Docker Container
  9. Building the CustomVision.ai project in Docker in a RaspberryPi
  10. Container dies immediately upon successful start in a RaspberryPi. Of course, it’s all about TensorFlow dependencies
  11. About ports, IPs and more to access a container hosted in a Raspberry Pi
  12. Average response times using a CustomVision.ai docker container in a RaspberryPi and a PC

Windows 10 and YOLOV2 for Object Detection Series

See you next one in Chicago for some Deep Learning fun!

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

#VSCode – Edit and work with #jupyter notebooks in Visual Studio Code

Hi !

I’ve been using Python and Jupyter notebooks more and more. And somehow, during this learning path I also realize that I can use Visual Studio Code to code amazing Python apps, and also to edit and work with Jupyter notebooks.

If you are VSCode python developer, you may know some of the features available in the tool. I won’t describe them, because you may find the official documentation very useful (see below links or references).

The Python extension provides many features for editing Python source code in Visual Studio Code:

However, during the part months I’ve also working a lot using Jupyter notebooks, and I was very happy when I realize that VSCode also have some cool features to work with notebooks. The core of the notebooks are cells, and we can use them with the prefix #%%.

This is how it looks inside the IDE, running a cell in the code

Another interesting feature is to run notebooks in a remote Jupyter server, maybe using Azure Notebooks. I haven’t tried this one, and it’s on my ToDo list for the near future.

On top of adding cells features into standard python [.py] files, we can also edit standard Jupyter files. I’ve installed jupyter into one of my anaconda local environments, and now I can edit files inside VSCode.

First, I’ll be prompted to import the file as a standard python file

And, done! Now I got my Jupiter notebook inside VSCode

The final step will be to export my file or debug session, and for this we have the command [Python: Export …]

Super useful!

Happy coding!

Greetings @ NY

El Bruno

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#Event – Materiales utilizados durante #GlobalAINight con los amigos de @metrotorontoUG

 

Buenas !

Después de una noche genial con los amigos de Metro Toronto UG, llega el momento de compartir los materiales que utilice durante la sesión. La idea inicial era hablar un poco de Azure Notebooks, y de alguna manera terminamos hablando también de Cognitive Services y Custom Vision, fue genial!

Para comenzar, los 15 min con el video de la Keynote:

Mis Slides

Y algunos de los links que utilicé durante la sesión

My posts on Custom Vision and ONNX

  1. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using WinML
  2. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using WinML
  3. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using Windows ML, drawing frames
  4. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using Windows ML, calculate FPS
  5. Can’t install Docker on Windows 10 Home, need Pro or Enterprise
  6. Running a Custom Vision project in a local Docker Container
  7. Analyzing images in a Console App using a Custom Vision project in a Docker Container
  8. Analyzing images using PostMan from a Custom Vision project hosted in a Docker Container
  9. Building the CustomVision.ai project in Docker in a RaspberryPi
  10. Container dies immediately upon successful start in a RaspberryPi. Of course, it’s all about TensorFlow dependencies
  11. About ports, IPs and more to access a container hosted in a Raspberry Pi
  12. Average response times using a CustomVision.ai docker container in a RaspberryPi and a PC

Windows 10 and YOLOV2 for Object Detection Series

Saludos @ Toronto

El Bruno

#Event – Resources used during the #GlobalAINight @metrotorontoUG

 

Hi  !

After an amazing event with my friends from Metro Toronto UG, it’s time to share some resources. It was initially supposed to be focused only on Azure Notebooks, but somehow we spend a lot of time talking about Cognitive Services and Custom Vision, that was great!

Let’s start with the 15 min Keynote video:

My Slides

And some interesting online resources

My posts on Custom Vision and ONNX

  1. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using WinML
  2. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using WinML
  3. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using Windows ML, drawing frames
  4. Object recognition with Custom Vision and ONNX in Windows applications using Windows ML, calculate FPS
  5. Can’t install Docker on Windows 10 Home, need Pro or Enterprise
  6. Running a Custom Vision project in a local Docker Container
  7. Analyzing images in a Console App using a Custom Vision project in a Docker Container
  8. Analyzing images using PostMan from a Custom Vision project hosted in a Docker Container
  9. Building the CustomVision.ai project in Docker in a RaspberryPi
  10. Container dies immediately upon successful start in a RaspberryPi. Of course, it’s all about TensorFlow dependencies
  11. About ports, IPs and more to access a container hosted in a Raspberry Pi
  12. Average response times using a CustomVision.ai docker container in a RaspberryPi and a PC

Windows 10 and YOLOV2 for Object Detection Series

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

#VS2019 – Working with #Python Environments now is so cool !

Hi !

Let me start with IANAPU [I am not a Python user], and that’s maybe why, when I need to work and understand what is in my current environment it took me a lot of time to get and deploy the correct tools and the right packages to work with. I’m not a fan of console environments, and if we add this to the 90% of the Python work, that maybe the main problem.

Visual Studio Code is amazing environment to work with Python. So far, is good enough for me and my machine learning devs. I’ll became a brand-new Mac user in the next couple of days, so I hope that everything I’ve learned is the same on Mac.

I was trying some of the new features in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, and the options to manage Python environments blown my mind.

Let’s start with a single Python Application in the solution explorer. With 2 clicks I know what I have in my environment: current python version, packages and more.

01 python environment in vs2019 preview 2 solution explorer

With 2 clicks I can add a new environment, where I can choose the Python version, a base Anaconda environment, and tons of options more.

02 new python environment

If we decided to create an Anaconda working environment, we can load our working packages from a file, or from a cool drop-down list.

03 new python environment based on conda

Adding and upgrading packages is done with the usual Visual Studio integrated experience

04 install new packages05 upgrade packages

Of course, we have the option to review the Console logs, to understand the background processes

Virtual environment is being created at '...\Python\PythonApplication1\envBlog01'
Virtual environment was successfully created at '...\Python\PythonApplication1\envBlog01'
----- Creating 'envBlogConda01' -----
Solving environment: ...working... done
## Package Plan ##
  environment location: d:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\envBlogConda01
==> WARNING: A newer version of conda exists. <==
Preparing transaction: ...working... done
  current version: 4.5.4
  latest version: 4.6.1
Please update conda by running
    $ conda update -n base conda
Verifying transaction: ...working... done
Executing transaction: ...working... done
#
# To activate this environment, use:
# > activate envBlogConda01
#
# To deactivate an active environment, use:
# > deactivate
#
# * for power-users using bash, you must source
#
----- Successfully created 'envBlogConda01' -----


---- Installing 'numpy' -----
Collecting numpy
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/31/7e/8905636f7e4f9b9d7078aa0e701500634f832f145855a11beb098d3b0fb1/numpy-1.16.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl (11.9MB)
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy-1.16.0
You are using pip version 10.0.1, however version 19.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
----- Successfully installed 'numpy' -----


---- Installing 'pip' -----
Collecting pip==19.0.1
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/46/dc/7fd5df840efb3e56c8b4f768793a237ec4ee59891959d6a215d63f727023/pip-19.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
  Found existing installation: pip 10.0.1
    Uninstalling pip-10.0.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-10.0.1
Successfully installed pip-19.0.1
----- Successfully installed 'pip' -----

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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