import cv2 as cv # haar cascades are very sensitive to noise in an image img = cv.imread('Photos/group 1.jpg') cv.imshow('Group of 5 People', img) # haar cascades essentially look at an object in an image and using the edges, it determines whether it's a face or not gray = cv.cvtColor(img, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) cv.imshow('Gray People', gray) haar_cascade = cv.CascadeClassifier('haar_face.xml') # rectangular coordinates for the faces that are present in the image faces_rect = haar_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, scaleFactor = 1.1, minNeighbors = 1) # by minimizing these values, your making openCV more sensitive to noise print(f'Number of faces found = {len(faces_rect)}') for (x, y, w,h) in faces_rect: cv.rectangle(img, (x,y), (x+w,y+h), (0,255,0), thickness=2) cv.imshow('Detected Faces', img) cv.waitKey(0) # in order to do this on a video, just do it on each individual frame