Face detect and crop by using OpenCV

face_cropper.py

import cv2
import sys
import os


class FaceCropper(object):
    CASCADE_PATH = "data/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml"

    def __init__(self):
        self.face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(self.CASCADE_PATH)

    def generate(self, image_path, show_result):
        img = cv2.imread(image_path)
        if (img is None):
            print("Can't open image file")
            return 0

        #img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        faces = self.face_cascade.detectMultiScale(img, 1.1, 3, minSize=(100, 100))
        if (faces is None):
            print('Failed to detect face')
            return 0

        if (show_result):
            for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
                cv2.rectangle(img, (x,y), (x+w, y+h), (255,0,0), 2)
            cv2.imshow('img', img)
            cv2.waitKey(0)
            cv2.destroyAllWindows()

        facecnt = len(faces)
        print("Detected faces: %d" % facecnt)
        i = 0
        height, width = img.shape[:2]

        for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
            r = max(w, h) / 2
            centerx = x + w / 2
            centery = y + h / 2
            nx = int(centerx - r)
            ny = int(centery - r)
            nr = int(r * 2)

            faceimg = img[ny:ny+nr, nx:nx+nr]
            lastimg = cv2.resize(faceimg, (32, 32))
            i += 1
            cv2.imwrite("image%d.jpg" % i, lastimg)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = sys.argv
    argc = len(args)

    if (argc != 2):
        print('Usage: %s [image file]' % args[0])
        quit()

    detecter = FaceCropper()
    detecter.generate(args[1], True)

For all having problems use this line from documentation and insert on line 7 (don't need to use CASCADE_PATH now; it will automatically detect the path your filesystem has):
Cascade_path is useful only the places where have you deployed the code remotely i.e Docker container, Cloud Services etc

        self.face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(cv2.data.haarcascades + "haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml")

Documentation Reference: opencv-Pypi

hey ammm. i am begining pls tell me . how to run this code in spyder now i can import every module but i can't run anything. it tell IndexError: list index out of range

This is a problem with your image, I suggest you compress the image and then run, I had the same issue and compressed the image to <500kB then it worked.