Emotion_Based_Spotify

Project Description

Our Emotion-based Spotify project is a web app developed to analyze facial emotion and return a Spotify playlist to user. It can recognize the following emotions: happy, sad, fear, angry, surprise and neutral.

Project Highlight

• Website front-end design and back-end setup
• Dynamic web hosting
• Face recognition with Opencv
• MySQL Databse

User Manual

• Open our website in Firefox:http://35.164.157.215
• Click"Try it out" in our homepage
• After directing to our main test page, enable the webcam access in your brower pop-up window.
• Take a selfie and you could immediately see the preview on the side
• Use the "Find playlist" button to get the playlist we find for you

Build Instructions

• The following software is required:
  • Python 3
  • OpenCV 3.1
• To run Python program for recognition in local, the following files in "python code" folder are required:
  • emotion_recognition_v1.1.py
  • fishface_mode.XML
  • haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml
  • haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml
  • haarcascade_frontalface_alt_tree.xml
  • haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml