research · 2025 – ongoing
Real-Time Depression-Risk Monitoring via Micro-Expressions
This is a research-stage risk-monitoring tool. It is explicitly not a diagnostic instrument and makes no clinical claims. It does not detect, diagnose, or treat depression.
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Problem
Mental-health signal monitoring requires both technical care and privacy sensitivity, with clear boundaries between risk-signal detection and clinical diagnosis.
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Method
01Action Unit dynamics and smile asymmetry analysis.
02Blink rate and head motion feature extraction.
03On-device processing — no cloud dependency for sensitive facial data.
04User-consented short camera snippet analysis.
Stack
AndroidComputer VisionOn-device AIAction UnitsOpenFace