stealing-ur-feelings

Why we included this project

Stealing Ur Feelings is an interactive documentary that captures your face through the webcam while a film plays, then tells you what it thinks your micro-expressions reveal. It runs emotion recognition in real time entirely inside the browser, so it works as a public demonstration of how exposed webcams can be. Behind the scenes, the author explains how he moved a facial-landmark detector to WebAssembly, connected face-api.js for detection and emotion classification, and kept the video and vision pipeline in frame-accurate sync using a datacasting trick. Those notes are more honest and specific than most production docs, making it a useful reference for developers working on browser-based computer vision or privacy-focused demos. Treat it as an art piece and a cautionary case study rather than a drop-in library.