Inspiration
After watching the movie, 'Blade Runner,' and seeing the device they use to detect emotional responses from the humans and their replicants (genetically engineered laborers) to better tell them apart, I got the inspiration to develop a polygraph machine for humans that operates via a webcam.
What it does
The application detects a user's heart rate visually via a webcam and, along with other sensors, displays metrics relating to a user's stress level. The application can also be simultaneously used as a medical device because of the metrics it is measuring, much like the healthcare robot 'Baymax' from Disney's Big Hero 6.
How we built it
Challenges we ran into
The hardest part was getting everything that should have been working, in theory, to work in practice. Everything from the heart rate algorithm to plotting our metrics in real-time required heavy optimization and testing to work.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting a finished product that works reasonably well. It was satisfying to this completed
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