#!/usr/bin/python # # This example shows how to use find_candidate_object_locations(). The # function takes an input image and generates a set of candidate rectangles # which are expected to bound any objects in the image. # It is based on the paper: # Segmentation as Selective Search for Object Recognition by Koen E. A. van de Sande, et al. # # Typically, you would use this as part of an object detection pipeline. # find_candidate_object_locations() nominates boxes that might contain an # object and you then run some expensive classifier on each one and throw away # the false alarms. Since find_candidate_object_locations() will only generate # a few thousand rectangles it is much faster than scanning all possible # rectangles inside an image. # # # 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 dlib from skimage import io image_file = '../examples/faces/2009_004587.jpg' img = io.imread(image_file) # Locations of candidate objects will be saved into rects rects = [] dlib.find_candidate_object_locations(img, rects, min_size=500) print("number of rectangles found {}".format(len(rects))) for k, d in enumerate(rects): print("Detection {}: Left: {} Top: {} Right: {} Bottom: {}".format( k, d.left(), d.top(), d.right(), d.bottom()))