YouTube Thumbnail Emotion and View Count Analysis Project
Data Collection & Curation: Used the yt-dlp library to scrape video metadata and images. Ensured data quality by performing manual curation to select only faces with clearly expressed emotions for training. * Deep Learning Implementation: Utilized a pre-trained YOLO model for robust face detection, followed by Transfer Learning on a Vision Transformer (ViT) to classify 7 facial emotions (approx. 70% accuracy). * Statistical Analysis: Applied advanced Python libraries to perform statistical correlation analysis between the recognized facial emotions and video engagement metrics (view count). This process demonstrated proficiency in integrating complex computer vision results with tabular data analysis to derive project conclusions.