DJ Eleven

This Stranger Things-inspired repo uses face, facial landmark, and hand detection from a live video stream (built-in camera or USB webcam) to control music stored locally. I wrote this program to let kids think they have special powers during Expedia's 2018 Halloween celebration.

Controls (works best 1 person at a time)

Blink to advance to next song.

Hold out hand to fade volume down till song is paused- song will resume when hand is no longer detected.

• Works best when camera sees open hand (palm facing the camera) and fingers slightly spread out.
• Can try to use both hands if having trouble detecting hands

Files

music/
Put your desired mp3 files in this folder

models/
Contains models used for face/hand detection

pygamemusicplayer.py
Class to control music (start, skip, volume control, pause, unpause)

DJEleven.py
Run this script to start DJing!

Packages

scipy, imutils, dlib, opencv-contrib-python, pygame

Notes

• No changes needed in DJEleven.py when switching between built-in camera and USB webcam

• hand-detectorC5.svm and hand-detectorC7.svm are models I trained. I only spent a day on them, so they are inferior to HandDetector.svm, which I obtained from https://github.com/maatici/Hand-Landmarks-Detector

• I used this guide to install dlib: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/03/27/how-to-install-dlib/

• Other references:

  https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/04/24/eye-blink-detection-opencv-python-dlib/

  https://handmap.github.io/dlib-classifier-for-object-detection/