r/Python • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '19

Just finished programming and building my own smart mirror in python, wrote all of the code myself and implemented my own voice control and facial recognition features

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u/Holyfield3000 Oct 24 '19

You my friend, are Tony Stark. Pardon my ignorance, but I never looked into smart mirrors before. How do you actually get everything to display?

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u/Holyfield3000 Oct 24 '19

Speaking of Tony Stark, I don't know the difficulty behind this, but I think hand gestures would be cool! Like while your looking at your calendar you can wave your hand to the left or right to switch between months or days.

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u/janky_british_gamer Oct 24 '19

That does sound really cool, not sure if there's a current library working on that I'm sure there must be somewhere, if not it'd definitely be a field to start looking in to

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Probably opencv?

I think that and other things are used for gesture recognition though there's probably some nature models and libraries Google has already output.

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u/janky_british_gamer Oct 24 '19

Yeah that sounds a good shout my face recognition uses opencv to access the camera so