Inspiration
After three years at Cal State Long Beach, we decided to give back to an establishment that has given so much to us. Not being able to bond with either Prospector Pete or Elbee the Shark we decided to create a webcam filter so that we can all take home a bit of Elbee.
What it does
By using facial recognition and motion capture, we were to plaster the face of a shark onto the face of any cal state long beach, as well as turn their arm into a sword.
How we built it
Taking advantage of facial recognition, we were able to map the picture of a cute shark onto the user's face.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into several problems issues with this project, it originally started as a tamagachi-inspired little garlic program, and then turned into a light sword battle and a Snapchat filter and finally a project we work with. See our garlic buddy couldn't be rendered correctly, because while some obj files worked the cutest little garlic didn't work. Since they aren't standardized, it broke our hearts.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're really proud we were able to get the motion capture software to work in just 8 hours. We failed a lot, had to analyze what we could keep, and scrap what we couldn't, and yet we didn't feel discouraged.
What we learned
We learned that we were definitely resilient under pressure. We were able to semi understand opencv in less than 24 hours.
What's next for Ajito Slayer
We are going to merge the ability use the filter and the light swords.
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