dlib face detection error : Unsupported image type, must be 8bit gray or RGB image

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Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “D:\Attendance_System_Us\main.py”, line 10, in <module>
faceloc = face_recognition.face_locations(imgModi)[0]
File “D:\Attendance_System_Us\venv\lib\site-packages\face_recognition\api.py”, line 121, in face_locations
return [_trim_css_to_bounds(_rect_to_css(face), img.shape) for face in _raw_face_locations(img, number_of_times_to_upsample, model)]
File “D:\Attendance_System_Us\venv\lib\site-packages\face_recognition\api.py”, line 105, in _raw_face_locations
return face_detector(img, number_of_times_to_upsample)
RuntimeError: Unsupported image type, must be 8bit gray or RGB image.

Solutions :

uninstall numpy >=2

1. pip uninstall numpy
2. pip install numpy==1.25.1

Thank You :)