Object Detector using HOG as descriptor and Linear SVM as classifier

Install OpenCV 3 with Python 3 bindings

You can install all dependencies by running

pip install -r requirements.txt

To test the code, run the lines below in your terminal

git clone https://github.com/vladkha/object_detector.git
cd object_detector/bin
python test_object_detector.py

The test_object_detector.py will download the CelebA and WIDER FACE datasets and train a classifier to detect faces in an image. The SVM model files will be stored in data/models, so that they can be reused later on in test_classifier.py

All the configurations are in the data/config/config.cfg configuration files. You can change it as per your need. Here is what the default configuration file looks like

[hog]
window_size: [178, 218]
window_step_size: 20
orientations: 9
pixels_per_cell: [8, 8]
cells_per_block: [3, 3]
visualise: False
normalise: None

[nms]
threshold: 0.4

[paths]
model_path: ../data/models/model_name.model

[general]
pyramid_downscale = 1.5
pos_samples = 1000
neg_samples = 1000

• config.py -- imports the configuration variables from config.cfg
• create_neg_samples_WIDER.py -- module to create negative samples (images of non-faces from WIDER dataset)
• extract_features.py -- module used to extract HOG features of the training images
• train_classifier.py -- module used to train the classifier
• test_classifier.py -- module used to test the classifier using a test image
• utils.py -- module containing helper functions

Detections before NMS	Detections after NMS

• OpenCV 3 - Computer vision library
• Scikit-learn - Machine learning library
• scikit-image - Image processing library

Possible ways to improve the project:

• Make the sliding window computation run in parallel - can dramatically speedup the code
• Split processing of the image pyramid in test_classifier.py to different cores of the processor, that way each core can process a separate layer of the pyramid independently
• Add bootstrapping (Hard Negative Mining)

• Credit for base project structure and image processing goes bikz05 for his object-detector
• Adrian Rosebrock for his great blog www.pyimagesearch.com and particular series of articles regarding object detection topic:
  • Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Object Detection
  • Non-Maximum Suppression for Object Detection in Python
  • (Faster) Non-Maximum Suppression in Python
  • Intersection over Union (IoU) for object detection
  • Image Pyramids with Python and OpenCV
  • Sliding Windows for Object Detection with Python and OpenCV
  • Pedestrian Detection OpenCV
  • HOG detectMultiScale parameters explained

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details