Eyesight Protector

Abstract

• My cousin starts remote classes due to pandemic.
• However, he could not foucs in class and stay too close on the screen.
• Thus these activaties inspired me to create a program to prevent eyesight loss.

Introduction

Due to pandemic children takes remote classes without acknowledging impact of screen on their eyesight. This program helps them to keep a distance from the screen.

This project utilise dlib open source library to create interactive program that warn to clients with a message if they are too close to the webcam.

Server client is created by gRPC framework to communicate between client and server

• Scan webcam image per second, and send frame to the server.
• Once server receive the frame, it detects whether client is on appropriate distance from the webcam by using ai module.
• If client is too close on screen or abscent, text will be written on the frame and visible to the client.

Installation

1. Prerequisties

   Follow the command below.

• Optional: Recommanded to use Anaconda Virtual Environment

  conda create -n <name of environment> python=3.8
  conda activate <name>
  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Without anaconda

  pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Build Faceboxes

   cd utils
   python3 build.py build_ext --inplace
   cd ..

3. Build gRPC protobuf

   sh build_grpc_pb.sh

How to Run

To activate server

python server.py --port <port number>

To activate client

python client.py --ip <server ip> --port <port number>

Acknowledgement

Dlib libary