import cv2 # Load the cascade face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml') # To capture video from webcam. cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) # To use a video file as input # cap = cv2.VideoCapture('filename.mp4') while True: # Read the frame _, img = cap.read() # Convert to grayscale gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) # Detect the faces faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.1, 4) # Draw the rectangle around each face for (x, y, w, h) in faces: cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (255, 0, 0), 2) # Display cv2.imshow('img', img) # Stop if escape key is pressed k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff if k==27: break # Release the VideoCapture object cap.release()