NAME
opencv-haartraining - train classifier
SYNOPSIS
opencv-haartraining [options]
DESCRIPTION
opencv-haartraining is training the classifier. While it is running,
you can already get an impression, whether the classifier will be
suitable or if you need to improve the training set and/or parameters.
In the output:
'POS:' shows the hitrate in the set of training samples (should be
equal or near to 1.0 as in stage 0)
'NEG:' indicates the false alarm rate (should reach at least 5*10-6 to
be a usable classifier for real world applications)
If one of the above values gets 0 (zero) there is an overflow. In this
case the false alarm rate is so low, that further training doesn’t make
sense anymore, so it can be stopped.
OPTIONS
opencv-haartraining supports the following options:
-data dir_name
The directory in which the trained classifier is stored.
-vec vec_file_name
The file name of the positive samples file (e.g. created by the
opencv-createsamples(1) utility).
-bg background_file_name
The background description file (the negative sample set). It
contains a list of images into which randomly distorted versions
of the object are pasted for positive sample generation.
-npos number_of_positive_samples
The number of positive samples used in training of each
classifier stage. The default is 2000.
-nneg number_of_negative_samples
The number of negative samples used in training of each
classifier stage. The default is 2000.
Reasonable values are -npos 7000 -nneg 3000.
-nstages number_of_stage
The number of stages to be trained. The default is 14.
-nsplits number_of_splits
Determine the weak classifier used in stage classifiers. If the
value is
1, then a simple stump classifier is used
>=2, then CART classifier with number_of_splits internal (split)
nodes is used
The default is 1.
-mem memory_in_MB
Available memory in MB for precalculation. The more memory you
have the faster the training process is. The default is 200.
-sym, -nonsym
Specify whether the object class under training has vertical
symmetry or not. Vertical symmetry speeds up training process
and reduces memory usage. For instance, frontal faces show off
vertical symmetry. The default is -sym.
-minhitrate min_hit_rate
The minimal desired hit rate for each stage classifier. Overall
hit rate may be estimated as min_hit_rate^number_of_stages. The
default is 0.950000.
-maxfalsealarm max_false_alarm_rate
The maximal desired false alarm rate for each stage classifier.
Overall false alarm rate may be estimated as
max_false_alarm_rate^number_of_stages. The default is 0.500000.
-weighttrimming weight_trimming
Specifies whether and how much weight trimming should be used.
The default is 0.950000. A decent choice is 0.900000.
-eqw Specify if initial weights of all samples will be equal.
-mode {BASIC|CORE|ALL}
Select the type of haar features set used in training. BASIC
uses only upright features, while CORE uses the full upright
feature set and ALL uses the full set of upright and 45 degree
rotated feature set. The default is BASIC.
For more information on this see
http://www.lienhart.de/ICIP2002.pdf.
-bt {DAB|RAB|LB|GAB}
The type of the applied boosting algorithm. You can choose
between Discrete AdaBoost (DAB), Real AdaBoost (RAB), LogitBoost
(LB) and Gentle AdaBoost (GAB). The default is GAB.
-err {misclass|gini|entropy}
The type of used error if Discrete AdaBoost (-bt DAB) algorithm
is applied. The default is misclass.
-maxtreesplits max_number_of_splits_in_tree_cascade
The maximal number of splits in a tree cascade. The default is
0.
-minpos min_number_of_positive_samples_per_cluster
The minimal number of positive samples per cluster. The default
is 500.
-h sample_height
The sample height (must have the same value as used during
creation). The default is 24.
-w sample_width
The sample width (must have the same value as used during
creation). The default is 24.
The same information is shown, if opencv-haartraining is called without
any arguments/options.
EXAMPLES
TODO
SEE ALSO
opencv-createsamples(1), opencv-performance(1)
More information and examples can be found in the OpenCV documentation.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).