Telling attention from distraction, with emotion recognition

Detects whether a person at a screen is attentive or distracted, at 87% accuracy; checks across frames cut false alarms by 40%.

  • Computer vision
  • Samsung R&D Institute India
  • Sep 2023 – Nov 2023
  • Shipped
  • short entry
87%
attention-monitoring accuracy
○ reported, from my resume
40%
fewer false positives from multi-frame validation
○ reported, from my LinkedIn
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Illustration drawn by code: landmarks and head pose; attention drops as the head turns away.

Reads facial expression, eye movement, yawns and head pose, and confirms a signal across several frames before raising an alert. Emotion recognition is a feature of the same app. Used in the exam-proctoring platform.

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