face detector crop python code example

Example: cut out faces from photos in dir python

import cv2
import sys

imagePath = sys.argv[1]

image = cv2.imread(imagePath)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + "haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml")
faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale(
    gray,
    scaleFactor=1.3,
    minNeighbors=3,
    minSize=(30, 30)
)

print("[INFO] Found {0} Faces!".format(len(faces)))

for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
    cv2.rectangle(image, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (0, 255, 0), 2)

status = cv2.imwrite('faces_detected.jpg', image)
print("[INFO] Image faces_detected.jpg written to filesystem: ", status)