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I found Mathematica can use OpenCV to improve face recognition in FindFaces: how to improve the results of the face recognition feature.

But I tried this way and the kernel crashed.

URLDownload["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nagadomi/lbpcascade_animeface/master/lbpcascade_animeface.xml","lbpcascade_animeface.xml"];
FindFaces[img,"Image","TrainingFile" ->"lbpcascade_animeface.xml"]

Then I found that even using the files in the distribution will still cause kernel shut down.

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Notice that the number disappears, the code highlight disappears, the calculation does not continue, the kernel has stopped working at this time.

Can someone else reproduce this situation, is this a bug?

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    $\begingroup$ I observe the same behaviour ("11.3.0 for Linux x86 (64-bit) (March 7, 2018)") $\endgroup$
    – mikado
    Sep 23, 2018 at 11:33
  • $\begingroup$ Same on 11.3.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (March 7, 2018) $\endgroup$
    – Rohit Namjoshi
    Sep 24, 2018 at 1:49
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    $\begingroup$ This should be reported to Wolfram Support, please share then the case number so other people get a chance to follow up when new versions are released. $\endgroup$
    – rhermans
    Oct 25, 2018 at 10:20
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    $\begingroup$ @rhermans Re: [CASE:4169085] I was able to reproduce the crash, however TrainingFile is not documented and not supported. $\endgroup$
    – Aster
    Oct 25, 2018 at 10:49
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    $\begingroup$ Seems undocumented functions cannot get support. $\endgroup$
    – Aster
    Oct 25, 2018 at 10:49

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I launch Mathematica from a bash shell under linux and get the following error message when the kernel crashes:

OpenCV Error: Unspecified error (The node does not represent a user object (unknown type?)) in cvRead, file /home/usr0/matthias/tmp/opencv/opencv-3.1.0/modules/core/src/persistence.cpp, line 4976
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cv::Exception'
what():  /home/usr0/matthias/tmp/opencv/opencv-3.1.0/modules/core/src/persistence.cpp:4976: error: (-2) The node does not represent a user object (unknown type?) in function cvRead

I guess that you have triggered an error in OpenCV.

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    $\begingroup$ Nice find. Still, Mathematica should be resilient to errors in external calls. This should be reported to Wolfram Support. $\endgroup$
    – rhermans
    Oct 25, 2018 at 10:20
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Fixed in Version 12.

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animeface = FindFaces[#,
    "Method" -> "LocalBinaryPatterns",
    "TrainingFile" -> "lbpcascade_animeface.xml",
    AcceptanceThreshold -> 0.1,
    "ScaleDecreaseFraction" -> 1
]&;
HighlightImage[img, {"Boundary", Green, animeface[#]&}]

Remark:

  • Method must be set
  • Image`HumanDump`FindFacesHiddenOptions
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  • $\begingroup$ That's very interesting. Is there a repository somewhere for LBP xml files like the one you used? $\endgroup$
    – Carl Lange
    Apr 18, 2019 at 7:20
  • $\begingroup$ @CarlLange, OpenCV maintained some. Or search lbpcascade in google or github. $\endgroup$
    – Aster
    Apr 18, 2019 at 7:40

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