EyeHope: A real time emotion detection application

Abstract

This paper describes about an android application named “EyeHope” whose sole purpose is to reduce the dependency level of the blind and visually impaired people. This application would help them decrease the communication gap by allowing them to perceive and identify the expressions of the person they are communicating with, whether the person is speaking or just listening to them. This would be an android based application. This paper also states about the real-time system communication with blind and visually impaired people using frames captured by mobile camera which would then be processed. Processing includes face detection and emotion detection using OpenCV. The output would be the emotion of the person whose image had been processed. This output would be converted from text to speech so that the blind person could listen to it through earphones connected to his/her phones. Its implementation and future enhancements will definitely be going to improve the life style of blind or visually impaired people by allowing them to effectively communicate with people around them.