EmoDetect

Real-Time Emotion Detection App

This project is a Real-Time Emotion Detection application built with Python, OpenCV, and Keras. It captures video from a webcam, detects faces, and classifies emotions in real-time, specifically tracking “happy” expressions for a duration of approximately 3 seconds. When a “happy” face is detected continuously for this threshold, a message is displayed on the video feed.

Features

• Face Detection: Uses OpenCV’s Haar Cascade Classifier to detect faces in real-time.
• Emotion Classification: Classifies emotions into predefined categories: “Angry,” “Disgust,” “Fear,” “Happy,” “Neutral,” “Sad,” and “Surprise” using a pre-trained model.
• Consecutive Happy Detection: Counts consecutive frames with a “happy” expression. If “happy” is detected for ~3 seconds, a message is displayed.
• Real-Time Video Display: Continuously displays the video feed, showing emotions and tracking the duration of “happy” detections.
• Simple Exit Control: User can end the program by pressing the q key.

Requirements

To run this project, you need the following libraries:

• Python 3.x
• OpenCV
• Keras
• TensorFlow
• NumPy

Install dependencies with:

pip install opencv-python keras tensorflow numpy

File Structure

• emotion_detection.py: Main script for running the emotion detection application.
• haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml: Haar Cascade Classifier file for face detection.
• model.h5: Pre-trained model for emotion classification.

Usage

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/haffarsadok/EmoDetect.git
cd emotion-detection-app

Interact with the Application

• The app will open a real-time video feed from your webcam.
• It will display detected emotions for each face.
• If a “happy” face is detected for ~3 seconds, a message “Happy detected for 3 seconds!” will appear on the screen.
• Press the q key to exit the application.

Model Details

The emotion detection model is a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on facial emotion datasets. It classifies emotions into the following categories:

• Angry
• Disgust
• Fear
• Happy
• Neutral
• Sad
• Surprise

Customization

To adjust the duration for which a “happy” expression must be detected, modify the happy_duration_threshold variable in emotion_detection.py.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests for improvements or additional features.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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