#!/usr/bin/python # # This example shows how to use find_candidate_object_locations(). The # function takes an input image and generates a set of candidate rectangles # which are expected to bound any objects in the image. # It is based on the paper: # Segmentation as Selective Search for Object Recognition by Koen E. A. van de Sande, et al. # # Typically, you would use this as part of an object detection pipeline. # find_candidate_object_locations() nominates boxes that might contain an # object and you then run some expensive classifier on each one and throw away # the false alarms. Since find_candidate_object_locations() will only generate # a few thousand rectangles it is much faster than scanning all possible # rectangles inside an image. import dlib from skimage import io image_file = '../examples/faces/2009_004587.jpg' img = io.imread(image_file) # Locations of candidate objects will be saved into rects rects = [] dlib.find_candidate_object_locations(img, rects, min_size=500) print("number of rectangles found {}".format(len(rects))) for k, d in enumerate(rects): print("Detection {}: Left: {} Top: {} Right: {} Bottom: {}".format( k, d.left(), d.top(), d.right(), d.bottom()))