Some small updates to the INSPEC design – it now has a built-in battery and a flex cable as the proximity of the LEDs was interfering with the image quality.
Category: Halovision
The file haarcascade.xml can be replaced with one of these or a custom cascade classifier for better performance.
The latest version of the Halovision device; code-named INSPEC. A standalone infrared camera with a processor powerful enough to run the latest machine vision algorithms that flash LEDs when eye-movement patterns are detected after a long enough still phase. The camera case is 3D printed and installed on a flexible tripod to get a good angle. It records GIFs along with BMP stills that can be viewed the next morning via micro-USB cable.
I have been getting better results with a different night-vision camera with built-in infrared lights and zoom:
Finally have the standalone version ready for some test runs on my beautiful wife!
Episodes like in the following minute, where there is a 10 second break in eye movements around the 30 second mark, will now keep counting and trigger the audio tracks: