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Desmond
Desmond

Reputation: 5001

select first face OpenCV detectMultiScale with Python

I'm testing out OpenCV to detect faces and was wondering how can i effectively detect the first faces only?

the code below works for multiple but if I do a for loop on faces[0], the app complains with this:

for (x,y,w,h) in faces[0]:
TypeError: 'numpy.int32' object is not iterable


if len(faces) == 0:
        print('the list is empty', datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))
    else:
        print('the list is NOT empty', 'Detected',len(faces),'Face(s)')
        print(faces)

        for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
            cv.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,0,255),2)
            roi_color = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]  

    cv.imshow('Facial Recognition', img)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 397

Answers (2)

Ha Bom
Ha Bom

Reputation: 2917

faces[0] is only one face so you cannot loop over it.

if len(faces) == 0:
    print('the list is empty', datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))
else:
    print('the list is NOT empty', 'Detected',len(faces),'Face(s)')
    print(faces)

    face = faces[0]
    (x,y,w,h) = face 
    cv.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,0,255),2)
    roi_color = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]  

cv.imshow('Facial Recognition', img)

Upvotes: 1

chinmay padole
chinmay padole

Reputation: 25

You cannot iterate faces[0] cause it is not array it will be a single value you just iterate the loop once and break at the end to display only the first face detected

Upvotes: 0

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