Detect face then autocrop pictures

Question

I am trying to find an app that can detect faces in my pictures, make the detected face centered and crop 720 x 720 pixels of the picture. It is rather very time consuming & meticulous to edit around hundreds of pictures I plan to do that.

I have tried doing this using python opencv mentioned here but I think it is outdated. I've also tried using this but it's also giving me an error in my system. Also tried using face detection plugin for GIMP but it is designed for GIMP 2.6 but I am using 2.8 on a regular basis. I also tried doing what was posted at ultrahigh blog but it is very outdated (since I'm using a Precise derivative of Ubuntu, while the blogpost was made way back when it was still Hardy). Also tried using Phatch but there is no face detection so some cropped pictures have their face cut right off.

I have tried all of the above and wasted half a day trying to make any of the above do what I needed to do.

Do you guys have suggestion to achieve a goal to around 800 pictures I have.

My operating system is Linux Mint 13 MATE.

Note: I was going to add 2 more links but stackexchange prevented me to post two more links as I don't have much reputation yet.

Answer 1

This sounds like it might be a better question for one of the more (computer) technology focused exchanges.

That said, have you looked into something like this jquery face detection script? I don't know how savvy you are, but it is one option that is OS independent.

This solution also looks promising, but would require Windows.

Answer 2

I have managed to grab bits of code from various sources and stitch this together. It is still a work in progress. Also, do you have any example images?

'''
Sources:
http://pythonpath.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/pil-to-opencv-image/
http://www.lucaamore.com/?p=638
'''

#Python 2.7.2
#Opencv 2.4.2
#PIL 1.1.7

import cv
import Image

def DetectFace(image, faceCascade):
    #modified from: http://www.lucaamore.com/?p=638

    min_size = (20,20)
    image_scale = 1
    haar_scale = 1.1
    min_neighbors = 3
    haar_flags = 0

    # Allocate the temporary images
    smallImage = cv.CreateImage(
            (
                cv.Round(image.width / image_scale),
                cv.Round(image.height / image_scale)
            ), 8 ,1)

    # Scale input image for faster processing
    cv.Resize(image, smallImage, cv.CV_INTER_LINEAR)

    # Equalize the histogram
    cv.EqualizeHist(smallImage, smallImage)

    # Detect the faces
    faces = cv.HaarDetectObjects(
            smallImage, faceCascade, cv.CreateMemStorage(0),
            haar_scale, min_neighbors, haar_flags, min_size
        )

    # If faces are found
    if faces:
        for ((x, y, w, h), n) in faces:
            # the input to cv.HaarDetectObjects was resized, so scale the
            # bounding box of each face and convert it to two CvPoints
            pt1 = (int(x * image_scale), int(y * image_scale))
            pt2 = (int((x + w) * image_scale), int((y + h) * image_scale))
            cv.Rectangle(image, pt1, pt2, cv.RGB(255, 0, 0), 5, 8, 0)

    return image

def pil2cvGrey(pil_im):
    #from: http://pythonpath.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/pil-to-opencv-image/
    pil_im = pil_im.convert('L')
    cv_im = cv.CreateImageHeader(pil_im.size, cv.IPL_DEPTH_8U, 1)
    cv.SetData(cv_im, pil_im.tostring(), pil_im.size[0]  )
    return cv_im

def cv2pil(cv_im):
    return Image.fromstring("L", cv.GetSize(cv_im), cv_im.tostring())


pil_im=Image.open('testPics/faces.jpg')
cv_im=pil2cv(pil_im)
#the haarcascade files tells opencv what to look for.
faceCascade = cv.Load('C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/opencv/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
face=DetectFace(cv_im,faceCascade)
img=cv2pil(face)
img.show()

Testing on the first page of Google (Googled "faces"):

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Update

This code should do exactly what you want. Let me know if you have questions. I tried to include lots of comments in the code:

'''
Sources:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/python/cookbook.html
http://www.lucaamore.com/?p=638
'''

#Python 2.7.2
#Opencv 2.4.2
#PIL 1.1.7

import cv #Opencv
import Image #Image from PIL
import glob
import os

def DetectFace(image, faceCascade, returnImage=False):
    # This function takes a grey scale cv image and finds
    # the patterns defined in the haarcascade function
    # modified from: http://www.lucaamore.com/?p=638

    #variables    
    min_size = (20,20)
    haar_scale = 1.1
    min_neighbors = 3
    haar_flags = 0

    # Equalize the histogram
    cv.EqualizeHist(image, image)

    # Detect the faces
    faces = cv.HaarDetectObjects(
            image, faceCascade, cv.CreateMemStorage(0),
            haar_scale, min_neighbors, haar_flags, min_size
        )

    # If faces are found
    if faces and returnImage:
        for ((x, y, w, h), n) in faces:
            # Convert bounding box to two CvPoints
            pt1 = (int(x), int(y))
            pt2 = (int(x + w), int(y + h))
            cv.Rectangle(image, pt1, pt2, cv.RGB(255, 0, 0), 5, 8, 0)

    if returnImage:
        return image
    else:
        return faces

def pil2cvGrey(pil_im):
    # Convert a PIL image to a greyscale cv image
    # from: http://pythonpath.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/pil-to-opencv-image/
    pil_im = pil_im.convert('L')
    cv_im = cv.CreateImageHeader(pil_im.size, cv.IPL_DEPTH_8U, 1)
    cv.SetData(cv_im, pil_im.tostring(), pil_im.size[0]  )
    return cv_im

def cv2pil(cv_im):
    # Convert the cv image to a PIL image
    return Image.fromstring("L", cv.GetSize(cv_im), cv_im.tostring())

def imgCrop(image, cropBox, boxScale=1):
    # Crop a PIL image with the provided box [x(left), y(upper), w(width), h(height)]

    # Calculate scale factors
    xDelta=max(cropBox[2]*(boxScale-1),0)
    yDelta=max(cropBox[3]*(boxScale-1),0)

    # Convert cv box to PIL box [left, upper, right, lower]
    PIL_box=[cropBox[0]-xDelta, cropBox[1]-yDelta, cropBox[0]+cropBox[2]+xDelta, cropBox[1]+cropBox[3]+yDelta]

    return image.crop(PIL_box)

def faceCrop(imagePattern,boxScale=1):
    # Select one of the haarcascade files:
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml  <-- Best one?
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_alt_tree.xml
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml
    #   haarcascade_profileface.xml
    faceCascade = cv.Load('haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')

    imgList=glob.glob(imagePattern)
    if len(imgList)<=0:
        print 'No Images Found'
        return

    for img in imgList:
        pil_im=Image.open(img)
        cv_im=pil2cvGrey(pil_im)
        faces=DetectFace(cv_im,faceCascade)
        if faces:
            n=1
            for face in faces:
                croppedImage=imgCrop(pil_im, face[0],boxScale=boxScale)
                fname,ext=os.path.splitext(img)
                croppedImage.save(fname+'_crop'+str(n)+ext)
                n+=1
        else:
            print 'No faces found:', img

def test(imageFilePath):
    pil_im=Image.open(imageFilePath)
    cv_im=pil2cvGrey(pil_im)
    # Select one of the haarcascade files:
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml  <-- Best one?
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_alt_tree.xml
    #   haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml
    #   haarcascade_profileface.xml
    faceCascade = cv.Load('haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')
    face_im=DetectFace(cv_im,faceCascade, returnImage=True)
    img=cv2pil(face_im)
    img.show()
    img.save('test.png')


# Test the algorithm on an image
#test('testPics/faces.jpg')

# Crop all jpegs in a folder. Note: the code uses glob which follows unix shell rules.
# Use the boxScale to scale the cropping area. 1=opencv box, 2=2x the width and height
faceCrop('testPics/*.jpg',boxScale=1)

Using the image above, this code extracts 52 out of the 59 faces, producing cropped files such as:

Answer 3

Another available option is dlib, which is based on machine learning approaches.

import dlib
import Image
from skimage import io
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


def detect_faces(image):

    # Create a face detector
    face_detector = dlib.get_frontal_face_detector()

    # Run detector and get bounding boxes of the faces on image.
    detected_faces = face_detector(image, 1)
    face_frames = [(x.left(), x.top(),
                    x.right(), x.bottom()) for x in detected_faces]

    return face_frames

# Load image
img_path = 'test.jpg'
image = io.imread(img_path)

# Detect faces
detected_faces = detect_faces(image)

# Crop faces and plot
for n, face_rect in enumerate(detected_faces):
    face = Image.fromarray(image).crop(face_rect)
    plt.subplot(1, len(detected_faces), n+1)
    plt.axis('off')
    plt.imshow(face)

Answer 4

the above codes work but this is recent implementation using OpenCV I was unable to run the above by the latest and found something that works (from various places)

import cv2
import os

def facecrop(image):
    facedata = "haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml"
    cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(facedata)

    img = cv2.imread(image)

    minisize = (img.shape[1],img.shape[0])
    miniframe = cv2.resize(img, minisize)

    faces = cascade.detectMultiScale(miniframe)

   for f in faces:
        x, y, w, h = [ v for v in f ]
        cv2.rectangle(img, (x,y), (x+w,y+h), (255,255,255))

        sub_face = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
        fname, ext = os.path.splitext(image)
        cv2.imwrite(fname+"_cropped_"+ext, sub_face)



    return



facecrop("1.jpg")

Answer 5

Autocrop worked out for me pretty well. It is as easy as autocrop -i pics -o crop -w 400 -H 400. You can get the usage in their readme file.

usage: [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-i INPUT] [-w WIDTH] [-H HEIGHT] [-v]

Automatically crops faces from batches of pictures

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit
  -o, --output, -p, --path
            Folder where cropped images will be placed.
            Default: current working directory
  -i, --input
            Folder where images to crop are located.
            Default: current working directory
  -w, --width
            Width of cropped files in px. Default=500
  -H, --height
            Height of cropped files in px. Default=500
  -v, --version         Show program's version number and exit