face_detect_python2.py

#coding=utf8

import cv2
import sys

# python face_detect.py t3.jpg haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml

# Get user supplied values
imagePath = sys.argv[1]
cascPath = sys.argv[2]

# Create the haar cascade
faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cascPath)

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

# Detect faces in the image
faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale(
    gray,
    scaleFactor=1.25,
    minNeighbors=2,
    minSize=(30,30),
    flags = cv2.cv.CV_HAAR_SCALE_IMAGE
)

print "Found {0} faces!".format(len(faces))

# Draw a rectangle around the faces
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
    cv2.rectangle(image, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)

cv2.imshow("Faces found", image)
cv2.imwrite("face_detection.jpg", image)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()