Take a photo of yourself every day using your webcam.
usage: quantifiedselfies.py [-h] [-i CAMERA_INDEX] [-d DIR] [-c CASCADE] [-w]
[-b] [--random_interval RANDOM_INTERVAL]
[--retry_interval RETRY_INTERVAL]
Take a photo containing a face with your webcam after an random interval.
If no face was found, wait another random interval and try again.
Tip: schedule this to run daily.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i CAMERA_INDEX, --camera_index CAMERA_INDEX
Camera index. Usually 0 but try other integers.
(default: 0)
-d DIR, --dir DIR Directory to save photos (default:
/Users/hugo/Dropbox/images/faces/)
-c CASCADE, --cascade CASCADE
Haar cascade file (default: /Users/hugo/macports/share
/OpenCV/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml)
-w, --window Show camera image in window (default: False)
-b, --box Draw a box around the detected face (default: False)
--random_interval RANDOM_INTERVAL
Max hours to wait before taking a photo (default: 3)
--retry_interval RETRY_INTERVAL
Max hours to wait between attempts at taking a photo,
in case no face detected (default: 1)