Doorbell Surveillance with Facial Recognition

Tasks for Each Members

Setup

• Setting up development environment and tools (Thanh Tran)
  • Raspbian installation and configuration
  • PyCharm for IDE
  • Git with Github
• Facial Recognition – Installing the dependencies and getting it to work (David Nguyen)
  • Install dlib
  • Cv2
  • imutils
• Hardware Configuration
  • Picamera with picamera dependency (David Nguyen)
  • PIR motion sensor with gpiozero dependency (Thanh Tran)
  • Breadboard LED

Coding

Main.py

• Facial Recognition – https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/06/25/raspberry-pi-face-recognition/
• Send Email – Thanh Tran
  • When unknown person with link to view camera remotely
• Send Text Message – Thanh Tran
  • When unknown person with link to view camera remotely
• Live-stream of Camera to Website – David Nguyen
• Toggle LED – Thanh Tran
  • Lights up red if unknown, green if camera is on and yellow if face is recognized
• Motion Detection – Thanh Tran and David Nguyen
  • Sensor is too sensitive

encode_faces.py

• --Takes 5 pictures over 20 seconds
• --Updates the database with new set of photos / person

Index.php - Site to view camera feed and send text-to-speech to speaker

• Text-to-to speech through input text not working – David
  • Uses espeak module
  • sudo is required to run python scripts through webpage
  • sudo does not work with espeak on our raspberry pi
• Send command to run encode_faces.py - David
  • Requires parameter to set firstname_lastname