I decided to do a project for halloween (yes I am already starting now). I want to create a digital painting representing the portrait of a character. It will have several characteristics:
He will follow the people who pass in front of him with his gaze
Will scare people who watch it for too long
Will scare people who stay too long in front
It would be this kind of work
From AtmosFX
For now my problem is the first point, I don’t think the others will be problematic. I have already succeeded in coding motion, eye, face detection, but I was wondering if it was possible with OpenCV to solve the first point and if so would it be possible to guide me?
Thank you for your answers.
Best regards.
PS: I am new to Python, for this project I am using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B V1.2, a Pi Camera V2 and an Ultrasonic Sensor
I would like to hang the painting on a wall, and when I walk past it, the character follows me with its eyes. But being a beginner I don’t really know how to do it or even if it’s possible with OpenCV but I think so. This is why I ask if it would be possible to be guided by someone who knows about it.
I have tried several tutorials to try to understand some operation and I found some interesting like this one recently.
It helped me for some understanding. I thought, thanks to this tutorial, instead of a green ball, to detect people, and instead of the red point to make them black (pupils) but which will be placed elsewhere and which will have a limited movement margin (the shape of an eye, since the pupil does not leave the eye) but I do not know if this is possible. I suppose so.
But I’m not sure how to modify my code to achieve this.
# USAGE
# python object_movement.py --video object_tracking_example.mp4
# python object_movement.py
# import the necessary packages
from collections import deque
from imutils.video import VideoStream
import numpy as np
import argparse
import cv2
import imutils
import time
# construct the argument parse and parse the arguments
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("-v", "--video",
help="path to the (optional) video file")
ap.add_argument("-b", "--buffer", type=int, default=32,
help="max buffer size")
args = vars(ap.parse_args())
# define the lower and upper boundaries of the "green"
# ball in the HSV color space
greenLower = (29, 86, 6)
greenUpper = (64, 255, 255)
# initialize the list of tracked points, the frame counter,
# and the coordinate deltas
pts = deque(maxlen=args["buffer"])
counter = 0
(dX, dY) = (0, 0)
direction = ""
# if a video path was not supplied, grab the reference
# to the webcam
if not args.get("video", False):
vs = VideoStream(src=0).start()
# otherwise, grab a reference to the video file
else:
vs = cv2.VideoCapture(args["video"])
# allow the camera or video file to warm up
time.sleep(2.0)
# keep looping
while True:
# grab the current frame
frame = vs.read()
# handle the frame from VideoCapture or VideoStream
frame = frame[1] if args.get("video", False) else frame
# if we are viewing a video and we did not grab a frame,
# then we have reached the end of the video
if frame is None:
break
# resize the frame, blur it, and convert it to the HSV
# color space
frame = imutils.resize(frame, width=600)
blurred = cv2.GaussianBlur(frame, (11, 11), 0)
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(blurred, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
# construct a mask for the color "green", then perform
# a series of dilations and erosions to remove any small
# blobs left in the mask
mask = cv2.inRange(hsv, greenLower, greenUpper)
mask = cv2.erode(mask, None, iterations=2)
mask = cv2.dilate(mask, None, iterations=2)
# find contours in the mask and initialize the current
# (x, y) center of the ball
cnts = cv2.findContours(mask.copy(), cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,
cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = imutils.grab_contours(cnts)
center = None
# only proceed if at least one contour was found
if len(cnts) > 0:
# find the largest contour in the mask, then use
# it to compute the minimum enclosing circle and
# centroid
c = max(cnts, key=cv2.contourArea)
((x, y), radius) = cv2.minEnclosingCircle(c)
M = cv2.moments(c)
center = (int(M["m10"] / M["m00"]), int(M["m01"] / M["m00"]))
# only proceed if the radius meets a minimum size
if radius > 10:
# draw the circle and centroid on the frame,
# then update the list of tracked points
#cv2.circle(frame, (int(x), int(y)), int(radius),
#(0, 255, 255), 2)
cv2.circle(frame, center, 5, (0, 0, 0), -1)
pts.appendleft(center)
# loop over the set of tracked points
for i in np.arange(1, len(pts)):
# if either of the tracked points are None, ignore
# them
if pts[i - 1] is None or pts[i] is None:
continue
# check to see if enough points have been accumulated in
# the buffer
if counter >= 10 and i == 1 and pts[-10] is not None:
# compute the difference between the x and y
# coordinates and re-initialize the direction
# text variables
dX = pts[-10][0] - pts[i][0]
dY = pts[-10][1] - pts[i][1]
(dirX, dirY) = ("", "")
# ensure there is significant movement in the
# x-direction
if np.abs(dX) > 20:
dirX = "East" if np.sign(dX) == 1 else "West"
# ensure there is significant movement in the
# y-direction
if np.abs(dY) > 20:
dirY = "North" if np.sign(dY) == 1 else "South"
# handle when both directions are non-empty
if dirX != "" and dirY != "":
direction = "{}-{}".format(dirY, dirX)
# otherwise, only one direction is non-empty
else:
direction = dirX if dirX != "" else dirY
# otherwise, compute the thickness of the line and
# draw the connecting lines
#thickness = int(np.sqrt(args["buffer"] / float(i + 1)) * 2.5)
#cv2.line(frame, pts[i - 1], pts[i], (0, 0, 255), thickness)
# show the movement deltas and the direction of movement on
# the frame
cv2.putText(frame, direction, (10, 30), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX,
0.65, (0, 0, 255), 3)
cv2.putText(frame, "dx: {}, dy: {}".format(dX, dY),
(10, frame.shape[0] - 10), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX,
0.35, (0, 0, 255), 1)
# show the frame to our screen and increment the frame counter
cv2.imshow("Frame", frame)
key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
counter += 1
# if the 'q' key is pressed, stop the loop
if key == ord("q"):
break
# if we are not using a video file, stop the camera video stream
if not args.get("video", False):
vs.stop()
# otherwise, release the camera
else:
vs.release()
# close all windows
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
