On the opencv path, haar cascade folder is not visible

Question

Previously, I find the path of haar cascade using

import cv2

print(cv2.file)

/home/mohan/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cv2/cv2.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.

Recently, I installed ubuntu 19. Now the path showing is

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cv2.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

where I didn't find any data folder. can anyone pls help me on this

Answer 1

Have you built opencv from source?, if yes then you can access your haar cascades from path_to_your_downloaded_opencv_folder/data/haarcascades/. If you have done a pip install, then you will have to download it. Here is your link : https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascades