Advanced camera with face detection/recognition, high MP, high resolution, good night vision image, capturing pictures and compatible with ArduinoUno

Hi everyone,

I am new to Arduino.

So, I am making a project with smart door locks.

I want to have a camera that can perform face detection and recognition with a high image quality and also capable of having good images in night. It should be capable of taking pictures when asked by the arduino main code and be campatible with Arduino Uno boards. Afterwards I would like to send a picture immediately with an ESP32 board to a certain whatsapp number.

Does anyone know a camera module that is capable of this and if there is a tutorial available it would be nice.

Can it maybe self made by buying a high quality camera module and connect IR leds and sensors with a motion sensor and make it work by writing a certain code?

Thanks in advance!

Why do you need the Uno in your project ?

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I would say no. Face recognition needs way more processing power than you can get from any of the range of Arduinos.

The Arduino Uno is the master in my project. So I have an ESP32 (slave) that makes communication via Wi-Fi with my WhatsApp to alert me when there could be an intruder. It would be nice if I could also send a picture of the possible intruder (together with the message, so at the same time). The arduino Uno and ESP32 communicate with a I2C - bus
Thanks for your reply!

does anyone know if following video is helpful?

Where can this be bought? So if I understand it well, the OV2640 Lens could work in dark but the quality of the image is very bad. This guy added 12 IR leds to the camera and the image became very good. Now my question is how does this device now when to light the IR Leds and when to power them off? There should be a IR sensor as well no??? and it should communicate when to power on the IR leds and when to power them off.

My excuses, I just saw that there is a small LDR phototransistor. Is there a project link available with sketches, codes or explanations so we can apply the same thing?

Look carefully - there's a simple CdS LDR in the array.

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I also saw from a forum that it is possible to take of the IR filter of a certain camera module and then it should also work in dark? Is that true? If yes, how is the quality of the image? If bad, can it be resolved by including something?

Why not do away with the Uno and use the ESP32 for everything ?

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You could use DFrobot's Huskylens for that.
I have no idea about the other parts.
I agree with @Grumpy_Mike and @UKHeliBob that why do you need the uno.

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