Last Updated : 06 Sep, 2024
The objective of the program given is to detect object of interest(face) in real time and to keep tracking of the same object.This is a simple example of how to detect face in Python. You can try to use training samples of any other object of your choice to be detected by training the classifier on required objects. Here is the steps to download the requirements below.
Steps:
Implementation
Python
# OpenCV program to detect face in real time
# import libraries of python OpenCV
# where its functionality resides
import cv2
# load the required trained XML classifiers
# https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master
# data/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml
# Trained XML classifiers describes some features of some
# object we want to detect a cascade function is trained
# from a lot of positive(faces) and negative(non-faces)
# images.
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
# https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master
# /data/haarcascades/haarcascade_eye.xml
# Trained XML file for detecting eyes
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_eye.xml')
# capture frames from a camera
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
# loop runs if capturing has been initialized.
while 1:
# reads frames from a camera
ret, img = cap.read()
# convert to gray scale of each frames
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Detects faces of different sizes in the input image
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
# To draw a rectangle in a face
cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,255,0),2)
roi_gray = gray[y:y+h, x:x+w]
roi_color = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
# Detects eyes of different sizes in the input image
eyes = eye_cascade.detectMultiScale(roi_gray)
#To draw a rectangle in eyes
for (ex,ey,ew,eh) in eyes:
cv2.rectangle(roi_color,(ex,ey),(ex+ew,ey+eh),(0,127,255),2)
# Display an image in a window
cv2.imshow('img',img)
# Wait for Esc key to stop
k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff
if k == 27:
break
# Close the window
cap.release()
# De-allocate any associated memory usage
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
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