Error running face_cascade.detectMultiScale

[syeds-git]

Following code from this file in celebrity recognition project does not work:

face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('./opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('./opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_eye.xml')

faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
faces

Error:

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error                                     Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-9-17af89ccf870> in <module>()
      4 # eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + 'haarcascade_eye.xml')
      5 
----> 6 faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)
      7 faces

error: OpenCV(4.1.2) /io/opencv/modules/objdetect/src/cascadedetect.cpp:1689: error: (-215:Assertion failed) !empty() in function 'detectMultiScale'

[Utkarsh1504]

firstly check-in your directory named as or similar to C:/Python/Lib/site-packages/cv2 XML files are present if they are, then instead of
./opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml use
the same XML file name from your directory.

and if they are not present then firstly download that files in that directory.
https://github.com/anaustinbeing/haar-cascade-files
you can download it from here.