Lack of databases of mango images is a major hurdle faced by researchers while developing image processing algorithms for mango related projects. This database was collected by us for developing computer vision algorithms for sorting and grading of mangoes.
The database consists of images of mangoes taken under unconstrained real world conditions using a consumer grade digital camera. Since the images are captured under real world conditions, they are subject to variations in lightning, blur, image quality, clarity, orientation etc. The database consists of 52 images of mangoes each of size 3648 x 2736 pixels captured against a white back ground. This database could be used for developing and testing Computer vision/ Image processing algorithms in mango related projects.
All are free to use this database for their projects and research works without any restrictions.
But if you use this dataset please cite the following paper in your work:
Leo Pauly and Deepa Sankar. "A new method for sorting and grading of mangos based on computer vision system." In Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2015 IEEE International, pp. 1191-1195. IEEE, 2015.
This post briefly explains about my project "Computer vision system for Drowsiness Detection using Web cameras". The aim of the project was to develop a computer vision system for
drowsiness detection. The developed system uses a ordinary web camera
and computer vision algorithms to detect whether the subject is
drowsy or active. The main advantage of the system is that it is non-intrusive and hence it can be implemented in real world conditions.
The project was completed in 3 stages :
Stage 1 : Identifying an eye blink detection method with high rate of accuracy
Stage 2 : Developing a eye tracking and blink detection system
Stage 3 : Using the eye tracking and blink detection system for drowsiness detection
Stage 1
In this stage an analysis of five non-intrusive methods for eye blink detection from low resolution eye images using different features like mean intensity, Fisher faces and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and classifiers like Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Artificial neural network (ANN) was conducted. A comparative study was performed by varying the number of training images and in uncontrolled lighting conditions with low resolution eye images. The results showed that HOG features combined with SVM classifier outperforms all other methods with an accuracy of 85.62% even when tested on images taken from a totally unknown dataset.
Paper based on stage 1 : (to be updated soon)
Stage 2
In this stage a novel method for eye tracking and blink detection
in the video frames obtained from low resolution consumer grade web
cameras was developed. It uses a method involving Haar based cascade classifier for
eye tracking and a combination of HOG features with SVM classifier for
eye blink detection. The eye tracking method had an
accuracy of 92.3% and the blink detection method had an accuracy of
92.5% when tested using standard databases and a combined accuracy of
86% when tested under real world conditions of a normal room.
In this stage an accurate method for drowsiness detection from the
images obtained using low resolution consumer grade web cameras under
normal lighting conditions was developed. The drowsiness detection method uses Haar
based cascade classifier for eye tracking and combination of Histogram
of oriented gradient (HOG) features combined with Support Vector Machine
(SVM) classifier for blink detection developed in the second stage. Once the eye blinks are detected
then the PERCLOS is calculated from it. The PERCLOS is a parametric measurement of how long the eyes of the subject has been closed in one minute. If the PERCLOS value is greater
than 6 seconds then the person is said to be drowsy. The method was validated by comparing the prediction of the system with that
of a human rater. The system matched with the human observer with 91.6 %
accuracy.
The project was completed under the guidance of Dr. Deepa Sankar, Associate professor, Division of Electronics Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology.
