Mask Honker

The goose, a true sense of inspiration to us all.
The program detecting a mask
The program detecting no mask

Inspiration

We were inspired by our absolutely ridiculous friend group, a love/hatred for geese, and society's mask-based obstacles.

What it does

It constantly scans the room using the device's camera and plays a goose honking noise whenever it detects someone that's not wearing a mask.

How we built it

We C# and opencv to continuously grab frames from the camera. From there a deep neural net detects likely locations for faces, and we compare the top and bottom section of the location to see if a mask is being worn. Then, if it is, we play goose honking noise.

Challenges we ran into

All members of our group had either never touched opencv, or just used it for image processing 6 years ago. We had little to no experience with AI, just an idea and a dream.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting it to work! It warmed our hearts when we heard that very first crackling from our computer speakers, warning us of the danger we were putting ourselves in.