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+#include <opencv2/dnn.hpp>
+#include <opencv2/imgproc.hpp>
+#include <opencv2/highgui.hpp>
+
+using namespace cv;
+using namespace cv::dnn;
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include <cstdlib>
+using namespace std;
+
+const size_t inWidth = 300;
+const size_t inHeight = 300;
+const double inScaleFactor = 1.0;
+const Scalar meanVal(104.0, 177.0, 123.0);
+
+const char* about = "This sample uses Single-Shot Detector "
+                    "(https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02325) "
+                    "with ResNet-10 architecture to detect faces on camera/video/image.\n"
+                    "More information about the training is available here: "
+                    "<OPENCV_SRC_DIR>/samples/dnn/face_detector/how_to_train_face_detector.txt\n"
+                    ".caffemodel model's file is available here: "
+                    "<OPENCV_SRC_DIR>/samples/dnn/face_detector/res10_300x300_ssd_iter_140000.caffemodel\n"
+                    ".prototxt file is available here: "
+                    "<OPENCV_SRC_DIR>/samples/dnn/face_detector/deploy.prototxt\n";
+
+const char* params
+    = "{ help           | false | print usage          }"
+      "{ proto          |       | model configuration (deploy.prototxt) }"
+      "{ model          |       | model weights (res10_300x300_ssd_iter_140000.caffemodel) }"
+      "{ camera_device  | 0     | camera device number }"
+      "{ video          |       | video or image for detection }"
+      "{ min_confidence | 0.5   | min confidence       }";
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv)
+{
+    CommandLineParser parser(argc, argv, params);
+
+    if (parser.get<bool>("help"))
+    {
+        cout << about << endl;
+        parser.printMessage();
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    String modelConfiguration = parser.get<string>("proto");
+    String modelBinary = parser.get<string>("model");
+
+    //! [Initialize network]
+    dnn::Net net = readNetFromCaffe(modelConfiguration, modelBinary);
+    //! [Initialize network]
+
+    if (net.empty())
+    {
+        cerr << "Can't load network by using the following files: " << endl;
+        cerr << "prototxt:   " << modelConfiguration << endl;
+        cerr << "caffemodel: " << modelBinary << endl;
+        cerr << "Models are available here:" << endl;
+        cerr << "<OPENCV_SRC_DIR>/samples/dnn/face_detector" << endl;
+        cerr << "or here:" << endl;
+        cerr << "https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/samples/dnn/face_detector" << endl;
+        exit(-1);
+    }
+
+    VideoCapture cap;
+    if (parser.get<String>("video").empty())
+    {
+        int cameraDevice = parser.get<int>("camera_device");
+        cap = VideoCapture(cameraDevice);
+        if(!cap.isOpened())
+        {
+            cout << "Couldn't find camera: " << cameraDevice << endl;
+            return -1;
+        }
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        cap.open(parser.get<String>("video"));
+        if(!cap.isOpened())
+        {
+            cout << "Couldn't open image or video: " << parser.get<String>("video") << endl;
+            return -1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    for(;;)
+    {
+        Mat frame;
+        cap >> frame; // get a new frame from camera/video or read image
+
+        if (frame.empty())
+        {
+            waitKey();
+            break;
+        }
+
+        if (frame.channels() == 4)
+            cvtColor(frame, frame, COLOR_BGRA2BGR);
+
+        //! [Prepare blob]
+        Mat inputBlob = blobFromImage(frame, inScaleFactor,
+                                      Size(inWidth, inHeight), meanVal, false, false); //Convert Mat to batch of images
+        //! [Prepare blob]
+
+        //! [Set input blob]
+        net.setInput(inputBlob, "data"); //set the network input
+        //! [Set input blob]
+
+        //! [Make forward pass]
+        Mat detection = net.forward("detection_out"); //compute output
+        //! [Make forward pass]
+
+        vector<double> layersTimings;
+        double freq = getTickFrequency() / 1000;
+        double time = net.getPerfProfile(layersTimings) / freq;
+
+        Mat detectionMat(detection.size[2], detection.size[3], CV_32F, detection.ptr<float>());
+
+        ostringstream ss;
+        ss << "FPS: " << 1000/time << " ; time: " << time << " ms";
+        putText(frame, ss.str(), Point(20,20), 0, 0.5, Scalar(0,0,255));
+
+        float confidenceThreshold = parser.get<float>("min_confidence");
+        for(int i = 0; i < detectionMat.rows; i++)
+        {
+            float confidence = detectionMat.at<float>(i, 2);
+
+            if(confidence > confidenceThreshold)
+            {
+                int xLeftBottom = static_cast<int>(detectionMat.at<float>(i, 3) * frame.cols);
+                int yLeftBottom = static_cast<int>(detectionMat.at<float>(i, 4) * frame.rows);
+                int xRightTop = static_cast<int>(detectionMat.at<float>(i, 5) * frame.cols);
+                int yRightTop = static_cast<int>(detectionMat.at<float>(i, 6) * frame.rows);
+
+                Rect object((int)xLeftBottom, (int)yLeftBottom,
+                            (int)(xRightTop - xLeftBottom),
+                            (int)(yRightTop - yLeftBottom));
+
+                rectangle(frame, object, Scalar(0, 255, 0));
+
+                ss.str("");
+                ss << confidence;
+                String conf(ss.str());
+                String label = "Face: " + conf;
+                int baseLine = 0;
+                Size labelSize = getTextSize(label, FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.5, 1, &baseLine);
+                rectangle(frame, Rect(Point(xLeftBottom, yLeftBottom - labelSize.height),
+                                      Size(labelSize.width, labelSize.height + baseLine)),
+                          Scalar(255, 255, 255), CV_FILLED);
+                putText(frame, label, Point(xLeftBottom, yLeftBottom),
+                        FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.5, Scalar(0,0,0));
+            }
+        }
+
+        imshow("detections", frame);
+        if (waitKey(1) >= 0) break;
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+} // main