Morse Code Blinking Translator

Inspiration

Our inspiration was from Spy movies and events that had secret morse code messages within the blinks of the person.

What it does

Based on the blinks, the software is able to turn those blinks into english letters through morse code.

How we built it

We built it using Python using the cvzone and cv2 library extensions that added in facial detection. Based on the distance between the top eyelid and bottom eyelid would determine a blink, and the timing between each blink will determine if it's a short blink or long blink,

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges we ran into were to having the proper library extensions to make it work. Some of us did not have the proper hardware or software in order to download the libraries we needed. Another issue was the facial detection was very sensitive and recording blinks were not accurate at all.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to make the sensitivity better and more accurate to count blinks. We were also able to optimize it better later on.

What we learned

We learned much more about facial detection and how it works and the obstacles we would run into if we would continue this project. It gave us a better sense of the strengths and weaknesses of facial detection.