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by marcsto2 2293 days ago
I guess we all had the same idea. My wife and I built https://www.donttouchface.com
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Congrats, you've made the least annoying one so far!

A simple beep is all we need, people. Also it seems more accurate than the others few linked here it seems, the face part is more narrowly detected, the other two went off whenever my hand was in the frame at all for some reason. This one only beeps when I actually put my hand on my face. (Not to be super critical of toy projects)

We tried a lot of different strategies in—

pre-made models

hand and face detection separately

training the algo yourself

and it felt like the last one was the strongest (which is what we released). The one we built is as strong as the training you give it—it shouldn't be going off if your hand is at all in the frame.

This is my favorite.