A camera that only takes photos when your eyes are closed!
Built by Bianca Ren, Cameron McDonald, and Chris Yoo. Winner - Peak of Pointlessness award in the Terrible Ideas Hackathon 2024 @ UNSW.
To detect when the subject's eyes are closed, we used a Python script to process a video feed from the laptop's camera and take photos when all eyes in the shot are closed.
We have used OpenCV, the dlib library and a facial landmark predictor model to find faces in the portrait, and within each face, check the Eye Aspect Ratio (EAR; a ratio of the horizontal length of the eye to the vertical length, i.e. a smaller EAR corresponds to a closed eye).
Upon taking the photo, the image is uploaded to an AWS S3 bucket, where the photos are served to the frontend.
Credits to this repo for the code for facial recognition.
Eyes open
Eyes closed
To cause maximal public shaming, we have created a public gallery of all photos taken where anyone on the Internet can view, download, and laugh at pictures of themselves. This is hosted on AWS Amplify, and available at: https://master.d3iee95gvbltma.amplifyapp.com/.
To cause involuntary blinking of eyes, we have hooked up our laptop to an Arduino which controls a bright LED panel. The flashes trigger at random intervals to stimulate eye closure.
