Inspiration
Lack of motivation among people who are battling against the lifestyle based malady pushed us to work towards their healthy rehabilitation.
What it does
Furnishes an unbiased mirror of one's own habits to get insights of where they can invest their effort to improve upon their lives.
How we built it
We started with the idea of finding someone who is most influential in one's life, that is they themselves. So, we generated animated caricature of users using Computer Vision. These characters were animated to exist in multiple scenarios to reflect upon the possible outcome based on users' day to day decisions. The predefined set of prescribed habits is used to guide our user to better his health and potentially achieve their goal.
Challenges we ran into
The lack of any existing library or framework to precisely extract out the face of user was a bit of a challenge in the beginning. So, we developed our own algorithm to mask the face in the camera even during live sessions.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The idea we finally agreed upon was quite challenging to be completely implemented in a short period. But, we could do it to an above acceptable accuracy was an accomplishment in itself. The fact that we could build an algorithm to extract the facial features of a person to an impressive accuracy is quite humbling.
What we learned
If there is no ready made solution existing for a problem, we have the potential to develop algorithms to tackle it in a way to serve our purpose and extend it to help others.
What's next for Mirror Mirror
We seek to extend the functionality of application to tackle various other lifestyle problems by increasing the set of prescription. The intelligence agent can be trained better upon giving more data and time.
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