I'm trying to learn cv2 in python 2.7, but when I run my code, in the specific part of it:
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_eye.xml')
img = cv2.imread('2015-05-27-191152.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
img = cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
it returns this:
File "face_detection.py", line 11, in <module>
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
cv2.error: /home/arthurckl/Desktop/opencv-3.0.0-rc1/modules/objdetect/src/cascadedetect.cpp:1595: error: (-215) !empty() in function detectMultiScale
I tried to search the answer here but the best i could find is that I must be loading the face_cascade the wrong way... Any help?
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Use the entire file path and use "\\" instead of "\" in the xml file path.
The file path should be as follows:
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('C:\\opencv\\build\\etc\\haarcascades\\haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
instead of:
cascade_fn = args.get('--cascade', "..\..\data\haarcascades\haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml")
I found this in some other answer but eventually worked for me when I added the two answers.
import cv2
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + "haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml")
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + "haarcascade_eye.xml")
img = cv2.imread('image1.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
I ran the same code. There are two things to note here. 1. Give the entire path of the .xml files. 2. Give a key press event instruction at the end.
Add this block of code at the end and run your file, worked for me:
k = cv2.waitKey(0)
if k == 27: # wait for ESC key to exit
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
elif k == ord('s'): # wait for 's' key to save and exit
cv2.imwrite('messigray.png',img)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
For example, my code looked like
import numpy as np
import cv2
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('C:\\opencv\\build\\etc\\haarcascades\\haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('C:\\opencv\\build\\etc\\haarcascades\\haarcascade_eye.xml')
img = cv2.imread('lena.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
#faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
roi_gray = gray[y:y+h, x:x+w]
roi_color = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
eyes = eye_cascade.detectMultiScale(roi_gray)
for (ex,ey,ew,eh) in eyes:
cv2.rectangle(roi_color,(ex,ey),(ex+ew,ey+eh),(0,255,0),2)
cv2.imshow('img',img)
k = cv2.waitKey(0)
if k == 27: # wait for ESC key to exit
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
elif k == ord('s'): # wait for 's' key to save and exit
cv2.imwrite('messigray.png',img)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
My output looked like this:
The error occurs due to missing of xml files or incorrect path of xml file.
Please try the following code,
import numpy as np
import cv2
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_eye.xml')
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while 1:
ret, img = cap.read()
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
roi_gray = gray[y:y+h, x:x+w]
roi_color = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
eyes = eye_cascade.detectMultiScale(roi_gray)
for (ex,ey,ew,eh) in eyes:
cv2.rectangle(roi_color,(ex,ey),(ex+ew,ey+eh),(0,255,0),2)
cv2.imshow('img',img)
k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff
if k == 27:
break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
no need to change the code
download that .xml file , then put the path of that file
it will solve the error (100%)
On OSX with a homebrew install the full path to the opencv folder should work:
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/usr/local/Cellar/opencv/3.4.0_1/share/OpenCV/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/usr/local/Cellar/opencv/3.4.0_1/share/OpenCV/haarcascades/haarcascade_eye.xml')
Take care of the version number in the path.
This error means that the XML file could not be found. The library needs you to pass it the full path, even though you’re probably just using a file that came with the OpenCV library.
You can use the built-in pkg_resources
module to automatically determine this for you. The following code looks up the full path to a file inside wherever the cv2
module was loaded from:
import pkg_resources
haar_xml = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
'cv2', 'data/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
For me this was '/Users/andrew/.local/share/virtualenvs/foo-_b9W43ee/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cv2/data/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml'
; yours is guaranteed to be different. Just let python’s pkg_resources
library figure it out.
classifier = cv2.CascadeClassifier(haar_xml)
faces = classifier.detectMultiScale(frame)
Success!
Your XML file was not found. Try using absolute paths like:
/path/to/my/file (Mac, Linux)
C:\\path\\to\\my\\file (Windows)
The XML file is missing, you can get the file from the GitHub repository and place it in the same directory as your project. Link to the folder on GitHub is here. Just download the file named haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml. Actually, the file exists on your system. Just go to the site-packages folder of your python installation folder and check the cv2/data folder for the file
If you are using Anaconda you should add the Anaconda path.
new_path = 'C:/Users/.../Anaconda/Library/etc/haarcascades/'
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(new_path + 'haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
"\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\cv2\data\" I found the xml file in this path for Anaconda
the error may be due to, the required xml files has not been loaded properly. Search for the file haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml
by using the search engine of ur OS get the full path and put it as the argument to cv2.CascadeClassifier
as string
I ran into the same problem. but wrote the correct location.
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('./model/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
I figured out that i need to declare the full path to remove the error.
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('C:/pythonScript/Facial-Emotion-Detection/model/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
Probably the face_cascade
is empty. You can check if the variable is empty or not by typing following command:
face_cascade.empty()
If it is empty you will get True
and this means your file is not available in the path you mentioned.
Try to add complete path of xml file as follows:
r'D:\folder Name\haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml'
You can solve this problem by placing XML in the same directory in which your main python file (from where you tried to include this file) was placed. Now the next step is to use full path. For example
This will not work
front_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('./haarcascade_eye.xml')
Use full path, now it will work fine
front_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/Users/xyz/Documents/project/haarcascade_eye.xml')
You just need to add proper path of the haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml
file i.e. you only have to add prefix (cv2.data.haarcascades
)
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + 'haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + 'haarcascade_eye.xml')
The XML or file is missing or the path to it is incorrect or the create_capture path is incorrect.
The paths in the opencv sample look like this:
cascade_fn = args.get('--cascade', "../../data/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml")
nested_fn = args.get('--nested-cascade', "../../data/haarcascades/haarcascade_eye.xml")
cam = create_capture(video_src, fallback='synth:bg=../data/lena.jpg:noise=0.05')
I had the same problem with opencv-python
and I used a virtual environment.
If it's your case, you should find the xml
files at:
/home/username/virtual_environment/lib/python3.5/site-packages/cv2/data/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml
/home/username/virtual_environment/lib/python3.5/site-packages/cv2/data/haarcascade_eye.xml
Please be sure that you're using the absolute path. Otherwise, it won't work.
Please do not copy paste the content of xml file, because once you paste it to notepad it will be saved a s text file. So directly download the file from the given source.
I faced a similar issue. It seems correcting the path to XML makes this error to go away.
I had the same issue.
I didn't need to download anything else to solve this. CV2 had everything I needed.
Instead of trying to figure out where the .xml
files are and hard coding the values, I used a property given by cv2.
From OP
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_eye.xml')
Becomes
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + 'haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + 'haarcascade_eye.xml')
You may find such kind of errors when you did not define the complete path of your XML file. Try this one if you are using opencv3.1.0 in raspberrypi 3: "faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/home/pi/opencv-3.1.0/data/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')"
The main idea of the solution as above mentioned: find the right path of the .xml
file and use it to access the file correctly.
In my case, I installed the opencv in anoconda env, first direct to path of Anoconda, then
find the path of .xml
file by using:
$ find . -name 'haarcascade_eye.xml'
(for example search the haarcascade_eye.xml
file in current dir (.))
Then use the return path
:
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(path + 'haarcascade_eye.xml')
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