catcierge-samples

Catcierge project samples for Haar cascade classifier

Description

The positive images marked in positives.txt were marked using: imageclipper

This list of positives where then fed to the Opencv createsamples program:

$ /path/to/opencv_createsamples -vec catcierge.vec -info positives.txt -bg negatives.txt -num 2588

It turns out the manual for the OpenCV traincascade program isn't very verbose on what parameters are exactly.

This question on stackoverflow gives the answer on what the -numPos setting actually can be set to.

Just because your .vec file contains 2588 positive samples, doesn't mean you set this to 2588. Instead you need to use this formula:

vec-file has to contain >= (numPos + (numStages-1) * (1 - minHitRate) * numPos) + numNeg

Which in my case is:

2588 >= (x + (20-1)*(1-0.999)*x) + 2279
x <= ~302

So to train the haar cascade:

$ /path/to/opencv_traincascade -vec catcierge.vec -bg negatives.txt -numPos 302 -numNeg 2279 -minHitRate 0.999 -numStages 20 -precalcIdxBufSize 6144 -precalcValBufSize 3072 -w 24 -h 24 -bg negatives.txt -data cascade

Note! Make sure you don't specify more memory than you have available in the above commandline. My computer has 16GB.