Winning project for WittyHacks 2.0 (central India's largest hackathon). Created by Prathamesh Naik, Raghav Mahajan & Mohit Nathrani.
Back-Off: Real Time Background Replacement
A tool that takes video and replace with new background provided by user in real time.
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Description
Background removal helps with creative portrait photography and much more, helping provide the ability to change the background to a location of your choice. There are 4 methods available to use. One is a simple live-method using the webcam, a user can change the background by pressing and holding 'a', 'b', or 'c'. Other is live streaming from a mobile app. The last one is by requesting the server with pre-recorded video and background picture of choice. Fourth one is android app with a Flask server.
Technologies Used
- Tensorflow
- OpenCV
- Flask
Results
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How It Works
$ git clone https://github.com/neatpun/real-time-background-replacement- Live Webcam Front
cd "Live Webcam Front"- install dependencies
python live_webcam.py
- Server Front
cd "Server Front"- install dependencies
FLASK_APP=index.py flask run- then open localhost:5000
- provide video and background image
- after processing download of required video will begin
- Live Stream Output
cd "Live Stream Output"- install dependencies
- connect any mobile device to same network and stream video.
- provide the ip address of mobile device in IP_Webcam_Out.py
python IP_Webcam_Out.py