Identify people (not from face?)

asked 2018-07-02 17:11:21 -0600

Hello World,

This is my first post, I am very new to OpenCV, so any input will be very valuable to me. I was wondering if there was a way to detect a person from behind? Let's say I was skydiving and I wanted to see how many people were ahead of me (and if I can somehow find out WHO was ahead of me, even better), just from the back with their suits on...

I was thinking of placing various color Xs on the back of their suits, each color meaning a different person, and I can make the Xs out of duct tape or magnetic tape.

I am not sure if this is making sense. I'm trying hard to explain but I am very tired, feel free to ask qualifying clarifying questions or anything like that. Thanks for taking time out of your day to read this! :)

Cheers, Michelle

answered 2018-07-02 23:17:24 -0600

dkurt

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@sparklegirl2929 You may be interested in person reidentification algorithms which can answer if two people from different images are the same person or not depends on their appearance but not only on face. As an example, there are models trained by Intel: https://software.intel.com/openvino-t... (search for "Identify Someone in Different Videos" topic).

See https://github.com/opencv/opencv/wiki... if you want to use OpenCV to import these models.

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Thanks! ) I will look into it. What about identifying the number of people in the video/picture, not so much who it is... that would just be icing on the cake.

Thanks!

sparklegirl2929 ( 2018-07-03 09:23:15 -0600 )edit

Traditional image identification systems have two phases

Object Detection - Tell you where the object is (x,y,w,h) coordinates
Object Identification - Tell you how similar two object are - its feed with images from the bounding boxes from before

So if you just need to detect faces / persons. Just uses a pre trained model (yolo, ssd) for this.

holger ( 2018-07-04 05:18:02 -0600 )edit

That is a good idea, thank you! What is yolo and ssd?

Thanks again :)

sparklegirl2929 ( 2018-07-09 11:50:29 -0600 )edit

I would call these network / model architectures.

yolo - You only look once - a method for extracting bounding boxes in one forward (fast)
ssd- single shot device - similar to yolo

holger ( 2018-07-10 01:32:33 -0600 )edit

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