Human Eye Blink Detection System

Abstract

One of the major problems faced by Motor Neuron Disease (MND) patients is that they cannot communicate, as there speaking ability gets affected. Thus, the aim of the project would be to design and develop a communication unit for MND patients using real time video processing. The objective of our project would be to develop a blink to speech conversion system, where the patient is supposed to perform series of blinks or winks that represent a particular sentence and the corresponding message is converted into the speech. The proposed system help the patients to fulfil their basic needs efficiently and the designed algorithm should differentiate between the intention blinks and normal blinks and convert the same into the speech. MATLAB is the platform used to develop the system. Since, MATLAB has many built-in functions and libraries that is helpful in image processing and also creating GUI.