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Null reference exception

Jun 19 2013 8:25 AM
below is my code: i am getting an error null reference exception was unhandled on following highlighted line






using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Emgu.CV;
using Emgu.CV.Structure;
using Emgu.Util;
using Emgu.CV.CvEnum;

namespace CameraCapture
{
    public partial class CameraCapture : Form
    {
        //declaring global variables
        private Capture capture;        //takes images from camera as image frames
        private HaarCascade haar;            //the viola-jones classifier (detector)

        public CameraCapture()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        //------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
        //Process Frame() below is our user defined function in which we will create an EmguCv 
        //type image called ImageFrame. capture a frame from camera and allocate it to our 
        //ImageFrame. then show this image in ourEmguCV imageBox
        //------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
        private void ProcessFrame(object sender, EventArgs arg)
        {
            //Read an image from hard disk at location e.g 'E:\IMAGES\'
            //Image InputImg = Image.FromFile(@"E:\IMAGES\MyPic.jpg");
            //Image<Bgr, byte> MyImage = new Image<Bgr, byte>(new Bitmap(InputImg));

            //fetch the frame captured by web camera
            Image<Bgr, Byte> ImageFrame = capture.QueryFrame();

            //Detect Faces from the ImageFrame
            if (ImageFrame != null)   // confirm that image is valid
            {
                //convert the image to gray scale
                Image<Gray, byte> grayframe = ImageFrame.Convert<Gray, byte>();
            

                //detect faces from the gray-scale image and store into an array of type 'var',i.e 'MCvAvgComp[]'
      
                
                    var faces = grayframe.DetectHaarCascade(haar, 1.4, 4,
                                            HAAR_DETECTION_TYPE.DO_CANNY_PRUNING,
                                            new Size(25, 25))[0];
         
                //draw a green rectangle on each detected face in image
                foreach (var face in faces)
                {
                    ImageFrame.Draw(face.rect, new Bgr(Color.Green), 3);
                }
            }
            //show the image in the EmguCV ImageBox
            CamImageBox.Image = ImageFrame;
            //To show the image in windows forms PictureBox called pictureBox1
            //pictureBox1.Image= ImageFrame.ToBitmap(); 
        }

        //btnStart_Click() function is the one that handles our "Start!" button's click 
        //event. it creates a new capture object if its not created already. e.g at first time
        //starting. once the capture is created, it checks if the capture is still in progress,
        private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (capture != null)
            {
                if (btnStart.Text == "Pause")
                {  //if camera is getting frames then pause the capture and set button Text to
                    // "Resume" for resuming capture
                    btnStart.Text = "Resume"; //
                    Application.Idle -= ProcessFrame;
                }
                else
                {
                    //if camera is NOT getting frames then start the capture and set button
                    // Text to "Pause" for pausing capture
                    btnStart.Text = "Pause";
                    Application.Idle += ProcessFrame;
                }
            }
        }
        private void ReleaseData()
        {
            if (capture != null)
                capture.Dispose();
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// This function is the Selected Index changed event of the comboBox
        /// It allows the user to select a desired camera and starts it for him/her
        /// </summary>
        private void cbCamIndex_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Set the camera number to the one selected via combo box
            int CamNumber = -1;
            CamNumber = int.Parse(cbCamIndex.Text);

            //Start the selected camera
            #region if capture is not created, create it now
            if (capture == null)
            {
                try
                {
                    capture = new Capture(CamNumber);
                }
                catch (NullReferenceException excpt)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(excpt.Message);
                }
            }
            #endregion

            //Start showing the stream from camera
            btnStart_Click(sender, e);
            btnStart.Enabled = true;
        }

        private void CameraCapture_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // adjust path to find your xml at loading
            haar = new HaarCascade("haarcascade_frontalface_alt_tree.xml");
        }

    }
}


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