In this tutorial, you will learn about OpenCV Haar Cascades and how to apply them to real-time video streams. Haar cascades, first introduced by Viola and Jones in their seminal 2001 publication, Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to perform face detection with OpenCV and Haar cascades. This guide, along with the next two, were inspired by an email I received from PyImageSearch reader, Angelos: Hi Adrian, I’ve been an avid…

Did you know that OpenCV can detect cat faces in images…right out-of-the-box with no extras? I didn’t either. I had to check it out for myself…and do a little investigative work to see how this cat detector seemed to sneak…