Face Detection Python OpenCV (py cv2)

Tiny Python program to capture the image and video, and detect faces (in real time) powered by OpenCV.

Steps

• image.py: Detect faces inside a image (one frame)
• video.py: Detect faces inside a video file
• webcam.py: Detect faces from webcam real time

Demo

Using

$ python image.py
$ python video.py
$ python webcam.py

The haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml originally available on http://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/data/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml.