[ClassyJacket]

Cute.

However I assume I could out-blink the framerate of a laptop webcam ;)

Does closing one eye at a time count, or is this like Doctor Who and we just ignore the concept of winking?

[StavrosK]

You can't, and that's demonstrated in this thing I made for fun: https://youtu.be/xzcdopwq7ok

A frame is 40 ms and you blink for more than 100.

[333c]

Too much effort. Just print out a picture of a person with open eyes.

At that point it's really just the honor code that holds us to honesty.

[jpalomaki]

Add heartbeat detection to verify the person is alive. [1] has one example, Google "use webcam to detect heartbeat" to find more.

[1] https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector

[adrianN]

Add gaze tracking and have people look at a randomly moving dot.

[quickthrower2]

While entering captcha codes every 10 seconds

[byronhsu1230]

This is so useful!

[dole]

Measurement of other minute facial feature movements besides blinking to detect whether it's a real person vs picture or other video?

[Wowfunhappy]

I think we've just discovered the real use for Apple's Face ID. Staring contest video games.

[theon144]

>Does closing one eye at a time count

Bah, I just tried it and it did not alleviate my urge to blink! I still want to blink afterwards. Does work it for you?

[nomel]

I imagine drawing eyes on your eyelids would be enough.

[nielsbot]

Will need some kind of anti-cheating system

[byronhsu1230]

Yes we will think about it. Thx.

[Buttons840]

Trying to fool the blink detector might end up being more fun than not blinking.

[byronhsu1230]

That's true. lol

[mrguyorama]

Do you really need it though? It would be pretty immediately obvious to the other player that their opponent is cheating.

[byronhsu1230]

The detector model now is not strong enough. It uses traditional computer vision concept to detect the blinking. We plan to combine deep learning to develop a more robust detector model in the future.

[jgtrosh]

Also, to address winking: you could define blinking as a sequence of winks. This should accommodate people with 1 eye blind though.

Wait, do blind people win this 100%?

[Vinnl]

Do blind people not blink?

Edit: Figured I could look this up myself. As I thought, yes, they blink - blinking clears particles and such from your eyes. (That is, unless they have trauma that prevents them from blinking, of course.)

[jgtrosh]

Thanks, I didn't think to look it up. I must have recalled a case where the person had such trauma and extended that to blind people in general.