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Hironsan/BossSensor
Hide screen when boss is approaching.
A joke-turned-real Python project that watches your webcam, detects your boss's face via a custom-trained CNN, and switches your screen to an editor when he approaches. It's a fun weekend hack from 2018 that applies face detection + binary image classification to a very relatable office problem. Not production software.
The concept is clever and the pipeline is dead simple: capture frame, run face detection, classify, act. Training is self-contained — you collect your own labeled images and run one script. The MIT license and flat file structure make it trivially forkable for anyone wanting to extend it. It's a decent minimal example of webcam → OpenCV → Keras classification in a few hundred lines.
Completely abandoned — last commit 2018, pinned to Python 3.5, PyQt4 (EOL), and a Keras/Theano/TensorFlow setup that no longer installs cleanly on anything modern. OSX-only by design, no cross-platform support at all. Requires you to collect and label your own boss photos, which is the entire hard part and gets zero help from the tooling. The classification model is a simple CNN trained on maybe a handful of images — false positive rate in a real office is going to be embarrassing.