import cv2 face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier("haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml") img = cv2.imread("Screenshot from 2018-07-20 14-00-25.png") gray_img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray_img, scaleFactor=1.05, minNeighbors=5) for x, y, w, h in faces: img = cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (0, 255, 0), 3) # print(type(faces)) cv2.imshow("face_detector", img) cv2.waitKey(0) cv2.destroyAllWindows()