What this is:
- A ~50$ plug and play eye tracker to help quadriplegic people make decisions. Either use it as a "Yes/No" thingy or connect it to a VLC Player instance on a local computer to skip videos and control the volume using your eyes.
- Gazing far left or far right will (by default) do a single or double beep and also send a command to VLC Player to skip or go back one position on the current playlist. Gazing straight down will toggle the left/right triggers into modifying the volume.
Dependencies face tracker:
- OpenCV (https://www.deciphertechnic.com/install-opencv-python-on-raspberry-pi/)
- dlib (pip install dlib / For Windows, use Anaconda or MiniConda)
- NumPy (pip install numpy)
- Shape_Predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat (http://dlib.net/files/shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat.bz2)
Dependencies notifier/player:
- Growl for Windows
- ExpressJS
- VLC Player
Set up the notifier / Player:
- Instalö Growl for Windows
- Install VLC Player, enable it's web interface and give it a lua password
- Host a wifi hotspot on your windows machine or have the RPI and Windows PC on the same network
- Add your PC's IP and the Lua password to the face tracking python script
- Start a playlist on VLC
- You're done! You can now control VLC with your eyes and see on-screen notifications about changes
Important notes:
- The RPI version is optimized for python2, while the windows version works only with python3 (float calculation)
- A NOIR camera with additional IR blasters improves the detection quality by a lot
Icon by Gregor Cresnar