Facial Detection with OpenCV for Python

Presented at Boise Code Camp 18 March 2017

This project uses, and includes, the haarcascade_frontalface_default classifier

Useage

Static Images:
python picture_facial_detection.py --face cascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default .xml --image images/single.jpg

Video Images:

With computer camera:

python video_facial_detection.py --face cascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml

To process an existing video file:

python video_facial_detection.py --face cascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml --video <path to video file>