Auto Smiley – Computer vision smile generator

by Theo Watson

Auto Smiley – Computer vision smiley generator from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

Auto Smiley is a computer vision application that runs in the background while you work. The software analyzes your face while you are working and if it detects a smile it sends the the ascii smiley face letters “: )” as keyboard presses to the front most application. Auto Smiley has many uses from just straight up convenience to enforcing honesty in your online communication :)

UPDATE: Windows PC Version!! Courtesy of Joey!
Grab it here.

UPDATE: for non US/UK users try this version – should work on all keyboards! AutoSmiley.app.unikeyboard.zip

Download the mac app here ( for US / UK / NL keyboards ):
AutoSmiley-001-Mac.zip

Download the mac app for QWERTZ keyboards ( thanks Peter! ):
AutoSmiley-QWERTZ.zip

The project uses openFrameworks and MPT for the smile detection – you can grab the source code here: AutoSmiley-OF-0061.zip

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haha … this is soooooo good.
i can haz ROFL detection?!? ..
:-)

Aram Bartholl added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 4:12 pm

Made my Monday. Thanks! =]

Becky added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 4:16 pm

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

tom added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 7:04 pm

:) auto :p

powderly added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 8:25 pm

Ö=
That’s what my app is creating! Why? Ö=

Silent Rocco added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 9:10 pm

So using this idea it would be possible to create a happy computer system, one that will only allow input if you are smiling?
I would love to see a room of people using them. it would be epic

Rone added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 9:43 pm

its ironic that Theo would write this plugin as he is too hard to ever smile, outside of this one test shot

bennett4$enate added these pithy words on Mar 22 10 at 9:57 pm

@Silent Rocco because you as me has a Swedish Keyboard. as Theo explains in the video it simulates pressing the keys, space : ) enter, on a swedish Kb that becomes Ö=

Martin Lindelöf added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 6:24 am

@Martin
I live in Germany. So, it’s the same with all European people :)
We need a special app! :) Thanks for the explanation.

SIlent Rocco added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 6:44 am

nice one :)
I had to change some values in testApp.cpp so it would work with my QWERTZ keyboard.
: is (CGKeyCode)47
) is (CGKeyCode)25

pieter added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 6:48 am

Really nice, I´ve been smiling all day!

Vic added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 9:04 am

This is the shit!!

anyone compiled a windoze version for the mass populace? Should send this to Lifehacker + BB etc

jamie dubs added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 1:17 pm

@pieter
Were do I find “testApp”?

SIlent Rocco added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 1:42 pm

I’d love to use this great stuff but I can’t because I’m french. How can I configure Autosmiley with my franche AZERTY keyboard…

For the moment ” :) ” is replaced by ” M0 ”

Help !

But I insist : it’s really a great job !

simon added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 5:32 pm

this looks like great fun! well done :)

Ian added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 6:59 pm

Dude, are you Morgan Grimes from the tv show Chuck?

someone added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 10:58 pm

It is really cool and fun! Thanks for sharing!

bitartist added these pithy words on Mar 23 10 at 11:20 pm

What about another one that instead of sending each smile, it detects the smile, tallys up the number of smiles or perhaps frequency during a period and if there are say 3 smiles a minute it updates a twitter account that says “Theo is happy” and if there were 5 smiles a minute it sends “Theo is really happy!” etc. This could also be used to update your “mood” icon on MySpace etc. or it would be really cool if Skype added such a ‘current mood’ tracker. So many potential uses

Liam added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 1:23 am

@silent rocco
in the source code

pieter added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 5:26 am

It doesn’t run for me. Don´t open the isight:(
I have snow leopard with quicktime 10.
Can´t install quicktime 7.

Any ideas??

Alex added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 5:47 am

if only it could detect other emoticons it would be so much better its also a bit to sensitive and to easy to set it of by ascendent :)
like that a speech recognition would also be useful keep up the good work! :)
:)
:)
:)

big but 5 added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 7:23 am

Sorry but you DO NEED to install QT 7 if you are using 10.6 / Snow Leopard!

Theo Watson added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 1:06 pm

then how i make it work??

It opens but stay black and the isight don´t start.

excuse my poor english:S

Alex added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 1:19 pm

Will there be a Windows Version? GOTTA have this…. :(

Lukas added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 2:22 pm

Hmmm … need to put this up on my server and record if people really smile at my blog posts ….

Awesome stuff btw :)

navjotpawera added these pithy words on Mar 24 10 at 5:17 pm

It seems to sensitive on my Mac. Anyway to decrease sensitivity?

C Bro added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 12:23 am

Also, I have a beard, which mimics the shape of a smile. possible trigger??

C Bro added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 12:25 am

Works great! :)

Very Cool App added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 8:03 am

I wish it would support angry, sad, surprised, and wink :)

Adorian added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 9:28 am

Used on Safari which scrolls down the page. This has made life a lot easier. Jokin’ really smart coding
:)

Joe added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 10:14 am

Add auto-smiley cooldown :) and It’ll be a lot more useful. Great idea, seriously.

Mikael added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 11:13 am

How I can change from :9 to :) ??

Adrian added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 2:09 pm

This is super awesome!!!

But is there a way i can make it work for a AZERTY-keyboard? because it gives the following: M0

But still, super awesome!!!! M0
M0

Timothy added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 5:15 pm

it is amazing but doest work for me cause i have the spanish keyboard, could you do a spanish version too please :)

thefofo added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 9:43 pm

Great Work! congrats!

monk added these pithy words on Mar 25 10 at 9:57 pm

Excelente Idea, se pasaron, solo funciona para las personas felices!!!

Pablo Campos added these pithy words on Mar 26 10 at 9:30 am

What i have M0 ? Automatic M0 , where change this :@

Michael added these pithy words on Mar 26 10 at 3:56 pm

great! i love it

sdffffz added these pithy words on Mar 26 10 at 4:55 pm

excellent application, my best congrats!

Raffaele added these pithy words on Mar 26 10 at 6:54 pm

soooo funny. i love it. i can’t wait to try this!

GnXd added these pithy words on Mar 26 10 at 8:36 pm

seriously :)
rad :)
I even got it to smile, :)
when I frowned (but I turned the laptop upside down.) :)
works on mac osx 10.4.1 for me, anyway.

argus_ added these pithy words on Mar 28 10 at 1:22 am

Excellent app, very good idea !!

// For AZERTY keyboard, here is my solution:

- the full source can be found here: http://misc.crashdump.fr/c0de/autoSmiley/AutoSmiley-001-AZERTY-SRC.zip

- the universal binary here: http://misc.crashdump.fr/c0de/autoSmiley/AutoSmiley-001-AZERTY.zip

- The correct GCKeyCodes are:
CGPostKeyboardEvent( (CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)47, true ); // - : key down CGPostKeyboardEvent( (CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)47, false ); // - : up down CGPostKeyboardEvent( (CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)27, true ); // - ) key down CGPostKeyboardEvent( (CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)27, false ); // - ) up down

crashdump.fr added these pithy words on Mar 28 10 at 4:22 am

Anyone care to release a win version? im starting to like this better than the a.r. projects im doing

Koulde added these pithy words on Mar 28 10 at 12:41 pm

Hey dude,
great program – would save me a lot of time, hehe

But on my system it will send a Ç= instead of :)

probably causing my portuguese keyboard layout – i’ve downloaded already the source code above from “crashdump.fr” but i couldnt figure out how to change it … could someone help me, i would like to use that programm ;)

Peace out

Bny added these pithy words on Mar 29 10 at 6:13 pm

Nice!!!

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Loving Lelli Kellys added these pithy words on Apr 09 10 at 12:07 am

I think it is good but if i smile it is like to click ENTER so it send autom. my messege :( thats crappy. It would be better if there is no enter only a :).

Please help me . Thank you :)

Fabian L.

Fabian L. added these pithy words on Apr 20 10 at 10:41 am

Hi all, I ported the autosmiley project to Windows Vista.
Source can be found here:
http://www.vanderbie.net/2010/04/29/autosmiley-for-windows/

Thanks Theo for the great work, think I’m gonna delve more into the MPI framework, looks really powerfull for feature detection!

Joey van der Bie added these pithy words on Apr 29 10 at 4:43 pm

Awesome! Saw this project already in April.

I used it as an base for a project I made this summer.
Thanks to AutoSmiley I was able to rapid prototype the concept I had developed.

Check it out here:
http://vimeo.com/15834812

Thanks Theo !

Bruce added these pithy words on Oct 14 10 at 6:49 am

Correction made an typo in de movie:

Here is the new link:

http://vimeo.com/15871126

Bruce added these pithy words on Oct 15 10 at 10:51 am

little over a year and this still makes me laugh! haha… good stuff, thanks!

GnXd added these pithy words on Apr 10 11 at 3:24 am

great people, their works are great

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Ich habe überall nach einer guten resorse sah ich danke Ihnen.

iso 9001 added these pithy words on Oct 05 11 at 4:53 am

Very nice, thank you!

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