From 61425f2d8c5431a5de08aae4a7ad77387193a61a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vishnu1710 Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 15:52:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Readme file is added --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc598f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Face detection with ML and Open CV + +In order to build face recognition software, we have to use the built-in Haar cascade classifiers in OpenCV. Luckily these classifiers have already been pre-trained to recognize faces! + +*images/* folder has several images for face detection. + +One can modify *scaleFactor* and *minNeighbors* parameters to fine tune the face detection technique. + +run the command to test it + +python detect_faces.py --face cascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml --image images/obama.png