I have an idea atm, although I won’t be working on this soon enough.
On mac os x (and i’m sure windows too), there’s a feature where you can automatically turn off your screen using a preset timer. Problem is, I can’t really use a short preset timer. The screen will be turned off while I watch youtube vids. quite annoying.
After watching some EE final year projects, I notice that quite a few ppl (especially those from computer engineering) use intel’s OpenCV library. Basically, it’s a library that provide a bunch of image processing and machine learning resources. THen, I thought, would it be nicer if I can set my screen to be turned off at a shorter time without affecting my works/watching youtubes? The idea is to use iSight and run a facial detection algorithm. I’m 99% sure that I will face to the monitor while watching youtubes. As long as the program can detect any faces, the screen wont go off.
