acfObjectDetector

Detect objects using aggregate channel features

Description

The acfObjectDetector object detects objects from an image using the aggregate channel features (ACF) object detector. To use the ACF detector on an image, pass the trained detector to the detect function.

The ACF object detector recognizes specific objects in images, based on the training images and the object ground truth locations used with the trainACFObjectDetector function.

Creation

Create an acfObjectDetector object by calling the trainACFObjectDetector function with training data.

detector = trainACFObjectDetector(trainingData,...)

Syntax

[detector = acfObjectDetector(classifier,trainingOptions)

Description

[detector = acfObjectDetector(classifier,trainingOptions) creates an ACF object detector based on the specified pretrained classifier and trainingOptions. You can use this syntax to recreate an ACF object detector for code generation.

Input Arguments

classifier — Pretrained acfObjectDetector object classifier

structure field

Pretrained acfObjectDetector object classifier, specified as a structure field. You can obtain the classifier structure field by converting a pretrained ACF classifier object to a structure by using the toStruct function.

trainingOptions — Pretrained acfObjectDetector object training options

structure field

Pretrained acfObjectDetector object training options, specified as a structure field. You can obtain the training option structure field by converting a pretrained ACF classifier object to a structure by using the toStruct function.

Properties

ModelName — Name of classification model

character vector | string scalar

Name of the classification model, specified as a character vector or string scalar. By default, the name is set to the heading of the second column of the trainingData table specified in the trainACFObjectDetector function. You can modify this name after creating your acfObjectDetector object.

Example: 'stopSign'

ObjectTrainingSize — Size of training images

[height width] vector

This property is read-only.

Size of training images, specified as a [height width] vector.

Example: [100 100]

NumWeakLearners — Number of weak learners

integer

This property is read-only.

Number of weak learners used in the detector, specified as an integer. NumWeakLearners is less than or equal to the maximum number of weak learners for the last training stage. To restrict this maximum, you can use the 'MaxWeakLearners' name-value pair in the trainACFObjectDetector function.

Object Functions

detect	Detect objects using ACF object detector
toStruct	Convert a trained aggregate channel features (ACF) object detector into structure

Examples

Train Stop Sign Detector Using ACF Object Detector

Use the trainACFObjectDetector with training images to create an ACF object detector that can detect stop signs. Test the detector with a separate image.

Load the training data.

load('stopSignsAndCars.mat')

Prefix the full path to the stop sign images.

stopSigns = fullfile(toolboxdir('vision'),'visiondata',stopSignsAndCars{:,1});

Create datastores to load the ground truth data for stop signs.

imds = imageDatastore(stopSigns);
blds = boxLabelDatastore(stopSignsAndCars(:,2));

Combine the image and box label datastores.

ds = combine(imds,blds);

Train the ACF detector. Set the number of negative samples to use at each stage to 2. You can turn off the training progress output by specifying Verbose=false,as a Name-Value argument.

acfDetector = trainACFObjectDetector(ds,NegativeSamplesFactor=2);

ACF Object Detector Training
The training will take 4 stages. The model size is 34x31.
Sample positive examples(~100% Completed)
Compute approximation coefficients...Completed.
Compute aggregated channel features...Completed.
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Stage 1:
Sample negative examples(~100% Completed)
Compute aggregated channel features...Completed.
Train classifier with 42 positive examples and 84 negative examples...Completed.
The trained classifier has 19 weak learners.
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Stage 2:
Sample negative examples(~100% Completed)
Found 84 new negative examples for training.
Compute aggregated channel features...Completed.
Train classifier with 42 positive examples and 84 negative examples...Completed.
The trained classifier has 20 weak learners.
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Stage 3:
Sample negative examples(~100% Completed)
Found 84 new negative examples for training.
Compute aggregated channel features...Completed.
Train classifier with 42 positive examples and 84 negative examples...Completed.
The trained classifier has 54 weak learners.
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Stage 4:
Sample negative examples(~100% Completed)
Found 84 new negative examples for training.
Compute aggregated channel features...Completed.
Train classifier with 42 positive examples and 84 negative examples...Completed.
The trained classifier has 61 weak learners.
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ACF object detector training is completed. Elapsed time is 15.4853 seconds.

Test the ACF detector on a test image.

img = imread('stopSignTest.jpg');
[bboxes,scores] = detect(acfDetector,img);

Display the detection results and insert the bounding boxes for objects into the image.

for i = 1:length(scores)
   annotation = sprintf('Confidence = %.1f',scores(i));
   img = insertObjectAnnotation(img,'rectangle',bboxes(i,:),annotation);
end

figure
imshow(img)

Recreate ACF Object Detector for Code Generation

Load the ACF stop sign detector from the stopSignDetector.mat file, which is present in the current working folder as a supporting file.

stopSignDetector = load('stopSignDetectorACF.mat');
detector = stopSignDetector.detector

detector = 

  acfObjectDetector with properties:

             ModelName: 'stopSign'
    ObjectTrainingSize: [34 31]
       NumWeakLearners: 61

Convert the detector into a structure by using the toStruct function.

detectorStruct = toStruct(detector);

To generate code, pass the structure to a MATLAB function. Then inside the MATLAB function, create an identical ACF stop sign detector using the existing detector properties.

detector1 = acfObjectDetector(detectorStruct.Classifier,detectorStruct.TrainingOptions)

detector1 = 

  acfObjectDetector with properties:

             ModelName: 'stopSign'
    ObjectTrainingSize: [34 31]
       NumWeakLearners: 61

You can pass detector1 to the detect function as an input to detect stop signs from images.

References

[1] Dollar, P., R. Appel, S. Belongie, and P. Perona. "Fast Feature Pyramids for Object Detection." Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions. Vol. 36, Issue 8, 2014, pp. 1532–1545.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation

Generate C and C++ code using MATLAB® Coder™.

Usage notes and limitations:

• Use the toStruct function to pass the acfObjectDetector object into generated code. For more information, see Generate Code for Detecting Objects in Images by Using ACF Object Detector.

Version History

Introduced in R2017a