openCV face detect

This Project allows you to real-time face detection through a webcam or video. It use the OpenCV library and a pre-trained Haarcascades face detector.

Requirement

Minimum

• Webcam
• Python 2.x (Not recommand)
• OpenCV library (cv2)

Recommand ( 30 fps )

• 2Ghz+ CPU
• Python 3.x

Installation

This script request OpenCV library, You can install the librarie using:

pip install opencv-python

Usage

1. Clone the repository or download the script.
2. Connect your webcam to your computer
3. Run the script using your IDE or the following command:

python main.py

You can also use a video file instead of using the webcam by modifying the cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) line in the script, And replace it with your video path

Control

• press q while the OpenCV window is in focus.