We will be using opencv to fully automate the feeding of fish, to do this we need to be able to:
>Identify breed of fish
>identify Size of fish
>Track the food consumption at feed time
OpenCv can perform all of these functions using a rapsbery pi and one cheap webcam [like the one in the image below].
The camera that works and is cheap:
OpenCV is an amazing piece of software and the newer Pi's are getting the power to run real time image processing tasks, like face detection.
However, OpenCv is not that user friendly, Lets make an attempt to simplify it a little. Most detection scripts need accompanying files that contain the information to identify what we are searching for in the image we just captured. Luckily OpenCv comes pre packed with some of these Haar-Cascaded [The files that tell open cv what to look for], they can be found in:
/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/ [for Pi]
[for information on what a HaarCascade is or want to build your own to identify a fish or banana? see:
>http://docs.opencv.org/master/d7/d8b/tutorial_py_face_detection.html#gsc.tab=0
>Robotics@Cyborg: How to make your own haar trained ".xml" files
OpenCv comes with default Haar-Cascades to find:
>Faces [frontal and side]
>Eyes [Right or left]
>Number Plates
>Upper and lower bodies of people
You can find many more by a quick google search and paste them into the above folder.
So how do we use these to detect faces, run in the terminal:
$sudo python Scriptname <Path to Haar-Cascade you like to use]
To run the one in the video,
>paste the code below into a empty text file saved as facedetect.py, right click and select any one can execute, then:
>Plug in a usb webcam into the pi [the cheap square ones from ebay work well $3]
>Type into terminal:
sudo python favedetect.py /usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml
if you want to exit, click on the video window and press esc on keyboard
| facedetect.py |
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## ********** Importing Some Libraries **************## import cv2 import sys ##Dont know what this bit does, but it works
cascPath = sys.argv[1] faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cascPath) #Telling script to capture from usb camera
video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
#************************Main LOOP *****************##
while True:
##********** We burn a few frames to make sure we have the newest one [stops lag] # Capture frame-by-frame ret, frame = video_capture.read() ret, frame = video_capture.read() ret, frame = video_capture.read() ret, frame = video_capture.read() ret, frame = video_capture.read()
##****** Resizing Incoming Image res = cv2.resize(frame,None,fx=0.5, fy=0.5, interpolation = cv2.INTER_AREA) frame=res ##********Converting to Grey Scale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) ##******** Finding Faces, changing the values for size of faces in camera view
faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale( gray, scaleFactor=1.1, minNeighbors=5, minSize=(30, 30), flags=cv2.cv.CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE )
# Draw a rectangle around the faces for (x, y, w, h) in faces: cv2.rectangle(frame, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
# Display the resulting frame cv2.imshow('Video', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(33)== 27: break
# When everything is done, release the capture video_capture.release() cv2.destroyAllWindows() |
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