Create Custom Haar Cascade

This script allows you to create custom haar cascades with ease.

Before using it

This script is heavily influenced from the Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3bu0tjFbk by "sentdex". I learned creating a haar cascade from that video series itself. I highly recommend you to watch it before using this tool. This tool is just used to semi automate the processes sentdex did on the video series.

Significance of the folders

input_images - This folder will contain the image(s) of the object you want to detect. Try keeping them small in size
input_resized_images - This folder will contain the resized image(s) of the object you want to detect.
negatives - This folder will contain the negative images that will be downloaded from image-net.org.
output_cascade - This folder will contain the cascade that is created using opencv_traincascade command.
positives - This folder stores the created positive samples. The positive samples are created using the images in input_resized_images and negatives using opencv_createsamples command.
uglies - Put one of each ugly images here to remove them from negatives folder.

Usage

python createCustomHaarCascade.py