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OpenCV 4.1 Contrib Lib on Jetson Nano Quick Start Guide with Facial Recognition

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This is a quick guide to get you started on the Nano as quickly as possible. Roughly a few hours in total. The guide will highlight major steps only and is intended for the intermediate users who just want the steps and links.

Video https://youtu.be/PttoKt6TMDk

GOAL: Running facial recognition in OpenCV 4.1 with Contrib lib over python using Nano and camera.

Disclaimer: This will uninstall OpenCV 3.3 that is preloaded on Jetpack for Nano and upgrade it to OpenCV 4.1. Worst case is it will break OpenCV and you will have to reload image. If you do not want facial recognition or other libraries in the Contrib build then you do not need to upgrade to OpenCV 4.1.


What you will need.

Preparing MicroSD card You will need to prepare the SD card using software from this link. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/ Download and install the software. Then perform a quick format of the SD card with no name.
Install the Jetson Image Download the image from Nvidia web site. https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/dlc/jetson-nano-dev-kit-sd-card-image
Download the image writing software and install on your computer. https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Use the Etcher software and load the image to the SD card. No need to unzip Jetson image.
Connect Camera to Nano Now connect the Raspberry Pi camera to the Nano.
Starting up Nano Insert the SD card into the Nano. Set the jumper on the Nano to use 5V power supply rather than microSD.

Connect Monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Connect power supply to Nano and power it on.
Create user name and password.

Increase System Memory
In order to install OpenCV 4.1 on Nano we need roughly 4Gb of additional memory. Otherwise the program will crash. Run the code below. Ensure you are using at least a 32 Gb SD card.

sudo fallocate -l 4.0G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

Uninstalling OpenCV

sudo apt-get purge libopencv*

Installing OpenCV 4.1
Open Terminal window and browse into a folder where you want OpenCV to download and compile. Then run the following code.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake git libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python2.7-dev python3.6-dev python-dev python-numpy python3-numpy
sudo apt-get install -y libtbb2 libtbb-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev libdc1394-22-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libv4l-dev v4l-utils qv4l2 v4l2ucp
sudo apt-get install -y curl
sudo apt install -y python3-pip
sudo apt-get update

wget https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/4.1.0.zip -O opencv-4.1.0.zip
wget https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib/archive/4.1.0.zip -O opencv-contrib-4.1.0.zip
unzip opencv-4.1.0.zip
unzip opencv-contrib-4.1.0.zip
cd opencv-4.1.0/

mkdir release
cd release/
cmake -D WITH_CUDA=ON -D CUDA_ARCH_BIN="5.3" -D CUDA_ARCH_PTX="" -D  OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=../../opencv_contrib-4.1.0/modules -D  WITH_GSTREAMER=ON -D WITH_LIBV4L=ON -D BUILD_opencv_python2=ON -D  BUILD_opencv_python3=ON -D BUILD_TESTS=OFF -D BUILD_PERF_TESTS=OFF -D  BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D  CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ..
make -j3
sudo make install
sudo apt-get install -y python-opencv python3-opencv

sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev 
pip3 install -y --user pillow

When the installation is complete. Run the code below to test the version of OpenCV you have.

python

import cv2
print cv2.getBuildInformation()

Generate Test images
In the location where you want to store the following example code.
Create a new folder called “dataset”, but do not browse into it.
All three python scripts for generation, training, and recognition are to be saved in the same directory.
This code will take images of your face using the Raspberry pi camera. The results will be stored into the “dataset” folder. Then the next script will do training on it.
Run the following code

import cv2
 import os
 cam = cv2.VideoCapture('nvarguscamerasrc !  video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),width=1280, height=720, framerate=21/1,  format=NV12 ! nvvidconv flip-method=2 ! video/x-raw,width=960,  height=616 format=BGRx ! videoconvert ! appsink' , cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)
 face_detector = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/usr/local/share/opencv4/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
 # For each person, enter one numeric face id
 face_id = input('\n enter user id end press <return> ==>  ')
 print("\n [INFO] Initializing face capture. Look the camera and wait ...")
 # Initialize individual sampling face count
 count = 0
 while(True):
     ret, img = cam.read()
     img = cv2.flip(img, 1)
     gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
     faces = face_detector.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
     for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
         cv2.rectangle(img, (x,y), (x+w,y+h), (255,0,0), 2)    
         count += 1
         # Save the captured image into the datasets folder
         cv2.imwrite("dataset/User." + str(face_id) + '.' + str(count) + ".jpg", gray[y:y+h,x:x+w])
         cv2.imshow('image', img)
     k = cv2.waitKey(100) & 0xff # Press 'ESC' for exiting video
     if k == 27:
         break
     elif count >= 30: # Take 30 face sample and stop video
          break
 # Do a bit of cleanup
 print("\n [INFO] Exiting Program and cleanup stuff")
 cam.release()
 cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Train Test images
This script will train the machine learning program to recognize your face.
Create a new folder called “trainer”, but do not browse into it.
Run the code below.

import cv2
 import numpy as np
 from PIL import Image
 import os
 # Path for face image database
 path = 'dataset'
 recognizer = cv2.face.LBPHFaceRecognizer_create()
 detector = cv2.CascadeClassifier("/usr/local/share/opencv4/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml");
 # function to get the images and label data
 def getImagesAndLabels(path):
     imagePaths = [os.path.join(path,f) for f in os.listdir(path)]    
     faceSamples=[]
     ids = []
     for imagePath in imagePaths:
         PIL_img = Image.open(imagePath).convert('L') # convert it to grayscale
         img_numpy = np.array(PIL_img,'uint8')
         id = int(os.path.split(imagePath)[-1].split(".")[1])
         faces = detector.detectMultiScale(img_numpy)
         for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
             faceSamples.append(img_numpy[y:y+h,x:x+w])
             ids.append(id)
     return faceSamples,ids
 print ("\n [INFO] Training faces. It will take a few seconds. Wait ...")
 faces,ids = getImagesAndLabels(path)
 recognizer.train(faces, np.array(ids))
 # Save the model into trainer/trainer.yml
 recognizer.write('trainer/trainer.yml') # recognizer.save() worked on Mac, but not on Pi
 # Print the numer of faces trained and end program
 print("\n [INFO] {0} faces trained. Exiting Program".format(len(np.unique(ids))))

Running Facial Recognition
Now comes the good part. Your final file directory should look like this.

Run the following script in the base directory. The program should now recognize your face.

import time
 import sys
 import cv2
 import numpy as np
 import os


 print ("OpenCV "+cv2.__version__)
 recognizer = cv2.face.LBPHFaceRecognizer_create()
 recognizer.read('trainer/trainer.yml')
 cascadePath = "/usr/local/share/opencv4/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml"
 faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cascadePath);
 font = cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX
 #id counter
 id = 0
 # names related to ids: example ==> yourname: id=1,  etc
 names = ['None', 'Botmation']
 cam = cv2.VideoCapture('nvarguscamerasrc !  video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),width=1280, height=720, framerate=21/1,  format=NV12 ! nvvidconv flip-method=2 ! video/x-raw,width=960,  height=616 format=BGRx ! videoconvert ! appsink' , cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)
 # Define min window size to be recognized as a face
 minW = 0.1*cam.get(3)
 minH = 0.1*cam.get(4)
 ret, img=cam.read()
 while ret:
 while (delaytime < 0.5)&ret:
  ret, img=cam.read()
 #ret, img =cam.read()
 img = cv2.flip(img, 1) # Flip vertically
 gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
 faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale(
  gray,
  scaleFactor = 1.2,
  minNeighbors = 5,
  minSize = (int(minW), int(minH)),
        )
 for(x,y,w,h) in faces:
  cv2.rectangle(img, (x,y), (x+w,y+h), (0,255,0), 2)
  id, confidence = recognizer.predict(gray[y:y+h,x:x+w])
  #Looks for a specific person
  # Check if confidence is less them 100 ==> "0" is perfect match
  if (confidence < 40):
   id = names[id]
   confidence = "  {0}%".format(round(100 - confidence))
     else:
   id = "unknown"
   confidence = "  {0}%".format(round(100 - confidence))
   cv2.putText(img, str(id), (x+5,y-5), font, 1, (255,255,255), 2)
  cv2.putText(img, str(confidence), (x+5,y+h-5), font, 1, (255,255,0), 1)
   cv2.imshow('camera',img)

 k = cv2.waitKey(10) & 0xff # Press 'ESC' for exiting video
 if k == 27:
 break
 # Do a bit of cleanup
 print("\n [INFO] Exiting Program and cleanup stuff")
 cam.release()
 cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Additional resources and References
Facial Recognition on OpenCV
https://www.hackster.io/mjrobot/real-time-face-recognition-an-end-to-end-project-a10826

Jetson Nano quick start guide
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/learn/get-started-jetson-nano-devkit