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VideoCapture shows "no camera access" placeholder image

I am trying to display a live video feed from camera. When I run the program, ret returns true but cv2.imshow() displays a placeholder image. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
import numpy as np
from cv2 import cv2
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
#initialize video from the webcam
video = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
print(cv2.VideoCapture(0).isOpened()) # ->returns True
while True:
# ret tells if the camera works properly. Frame is an actual frame from the video feed
ret, frame= video.read()
if ret ==True:
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Detect the faces
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.1, 4)
# Draw the rectangle around each face
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(frame, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (255, 0, 0), 2)
# Display
cv2.imshow('img', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff==27:
break
video.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
cv2.imshow('img', frame) opens the following window.
So, I checked whether the Camera permission is allowed and it seems it already is. I am using MacOS Big Sur (version 11.6).

Auto zooming while face detected

hi guys I want to implement (zoom in and zoom out) like digital camera to the detected faces while real-time capturing using opencv, is there is any way I can do it without just cropping the frame then display it.
here is my code ... ,,,
import cv2
# Load the cascade
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
# To capture video from webcam.
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
# To use a video file as input
# cap = cv2.VideoCapture('filename.mp4')
while True:
# Read the frame
_, img = cap.read()
# Convert to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Detect the faces
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.1, 4)
# Draw the rectangle around each face
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (255, 0, 0), 2)
# Display
cv2.imshow('img', img)
# Stop if escape key is pressed
k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff
if k==27:
break
# Release the VideoCapture object
cap.release()

Face Detection - Open CV can't find the face

I am learning the OpenCV. Here is my code:
import cv2
face_patterns = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
sample_image = cv2.imread('1.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(sample_image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)
faces = face_patterns.detectMultiScale(gray,1.3,5)
print(len(faces))
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(sample_image, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
cv2.imwrite('result.jpg', sample_image)
If I use the picture A, I could get a lot of faces, if I use the picture B, I get none.
I changed argument in detectMultiScale(gray,1.3,5) many times, it still doesn't work.
Picture A
Picture A Result
Picture B no face

I see this more as a problem of Cv2 module itself. There are better models than HAAR CASCADES for detecting faces. face_recognition library is also very useful to detect and recognize face. It uses hog as default model. You can also use cnn for better accuracy but the detection process will be slow.
Find more here.
import cv2
import face_recognition as fr
sample_image = fr.load_image_file("1.jpg")
unknown_face_loc = fr.face_locations(sample_image, model="hog")
print(len(unknown_face_loc)) #detected face count
for faceloc in unknown_face_loc:
y1, x2, y2, x1 = faceloc
cv2.rectangle(sample_image, (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (0, 0, 255), 2)
sample_image = sample_image[:, :, ::-1] #converting bgr image to rbg
cv2.imwrite("result.jpg", sample_image)

Instead of -
faces = face_patterns.detectMultiScale(gray,1.3,5)
Try Using -
faces = face_patterns.detectMultiScale(blackandwhite,1.3,5)
If the problem occurs even after this check out my code for face detection.

It uses hog as default model. You can also use cnn for better accuracy but the detection process will be slow.
cascade_classifier = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_eye.xml')
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while True:
# Capture frame-by-frame
ret, frame = cap.read()
# Our operations on the frame come here
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, 0)
detections = cascade_classifier.detectMultiScale(gray,scaleFactor=1.3,minNeighbors=5)
if(len(detections) > 0):
(x,y,w,h) = detections[0]
frame = cv2.rectangle(frame,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
# for (x,y,w,h) in detections:
# frame = cv2.rectangle(frame,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
# Display the resulting frame
cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
# When everything done, release the capture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()```

How to rotate camera recorded video?

I am trying to detect faces in a camera recorded video. When i did it with webcam video, it's working fine. But, with camera recorded video, the video gets rotated by -90 degree. Please suggest me, how do I get the actual video output for face detection?
import cv2
import sys
cascPath = sys.argv[1]
faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('C:/Users/HP/Anaconda2/pkgs/opencv-3.2.0-np112py27_204/Library/etc/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
#video_capture = cv2.videoCapture(0)
video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture('C:/Users/HP/sample1.mp4')
w=int(video_capture.get(3))
h=int(video_capture.get(4))
#output = cv2.VideoWriter('output_1.avi',cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc('M','J','P','G'), 60,frameSize = (w,h))
while True:
ret, frame = video_capture.read()
frame = rotateImage(frame,90)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
# Draw a rectangle around the faces
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(frame, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
#cv2.imshow('face',i)
#output.write(frame)
cv2.imshow('Video', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
video_capture.release()
output.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

In cv2 you can use the cv2.rotate function to rotate image as per your requirement
rotated=cv2.rotate(img, cv2.ROTATE_90_CLOCKWISE)

for rotating video you can use cv2.flip(), this method take 3 Args and one of them is the rotating code(0,1,-1) you can check this link for more details:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-opencv-cv2-flip-method/

count faces with python and opencv

I have script in python using opencv2 to detect face. I take video in my webcam and using Haar Cascade for detect faces. I want to get out of the number of detected faces in a one frame. I understand that this can be done by counting rectangles when a face is found. how to do it? How to count rectangles in one frame?
import cv2
import sys
faceCascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier("haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml")
video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while True:
# Capture frame-by-frame
ret, frame = video_capture.read()
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = faceCascade.detectMultiScale(
gray,
scaleFactor=1.1,
minNeighbors=5,
minSize=(30, 30),
flags=cv2.CASCADE_SCALE_IMAGE
)
# Draw a rectangle around the faces
for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(frame, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 2)
# Display the resulting frame
cv2.imshow('Video', frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
# When everything is done, release the capture
video_capture.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Simple use of len(faces) should return the number of faces.