How do you save images of detected objects?

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I am not sure I understand your answer. Could you explain more?

The function to save an image is imwrite. Is that what you are looking for? Or do you want something else?

I'll have to look in into the imwrite function more, thanks. Do you know how to designate the file path to where I want the image saved to in the code?

You should be able to specify the complete path and append the filename to it. For example:

std::string file_path = "c:\dir1\dir2\"
std::string file_name = "filename.jpg"
std::string save_location = file_path + file_name;
imwrite ( save_location, image );

Thanks that should be very helpful. Do you know how I could go about implementing the actual "if then" logic in the code? By that I mean if face detected, then take picture and save to file path?

Are you looking for code to detect a face? If so, check out Haar cascades. Otherwise, tell us what you have done so far and we can go from there.

No I already have the code detecting a face, I am just trying to add the logic such that an image of detected faces is saved to the controller as previously stated.What you have given me in regards to actually saving the image is very helpful. Now all I need help with is having the program only take and save images of faces that are detected.