Traceback (most recent call last):
File “face_detector.py”, line 13, in
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray_frame,1.3,5)
cv2.error: OpenCV(4.2.0) C:\projects\opencv-python\opencv\modules\objdetect\src\cascadedetect.cpp:1689: error: (-215:Assertion failed) !empty() in function ‘cv::CascadeClassifier::detectMultiScale’
[ WARN:0] global C:\projects\opencv-python\opencv\modules\videoio\src\cap_msmf.cpp (674) SourceReaderCB::~SourceReaderCB terminating async callback
Check if haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml file path mentioned by your is correct or not. This xml file should be present in the same folder where this .py file is
If error still persists than let us know more about it.
no that file is not in the current directory…how do i know in which dir its in
Just use file explorer directly. to check it. But if you want to know in jupyter itself than use this lines of code.
import os
print(os.listdir())
A list will appear showing names of all files present in the directory.
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