Eye-Shape Classification

Veronika Štrbáková

The project shows detection and recognition of face and eyes from input image (webcam). I use for detection and classification haarcascade files from OpenCV. If eyes are recognized, I classify them as opened or narrowed. The algorithm uses the OpenCV and SVMLight library.

Functions used: CascadeClassifier::detectMultiScale, HOGDescriptor::compute HOGDescriptor::setSVMDetector, SVMTrainer::writeFeatureVectorToFile

The process:

1. As first I make positive and negative dataset. Positive dataset are photos of narrowed eyes and negative dataset are photos of opened eyes.
   
2. Then I make HOGDescriptor and I use it to compute feature vector for every picture. These pictures are used to train SVM vector and their feature vectors are saved to one file: features.dat

   HOGDescriptor hog;
   vector<float> featureVector;
   SVMLight::SVMTrainer svm("features.dat");
   hog.compute(img, featureVector, Size(8, 8), Size(0, 0));
   svm.writeFeatureVectorToFile(featureVector, true);
   

3. From feature vectors I compute single descriptor vector and I set him to my HOGDescriptor.

   SVMLight::SVMClassifier c("classifier.dat");
   vector descriptorVector = c.getDescriptorVector();
   hog.setSVMDetector(descriptorVector);
   

4. I detect every face and every eye from picture. For every found picture of eye I cut it and I use HOGDescriptor to detect narrowed shape of eye.