Ghost Mirror with Deep Learning

More tricks this year for Halloween! This spooky mirror will turn anyone into a ghost! With the magic of deep learning and a camera you can have a live interactive mirror for the trick or treaters this year.

This year I thought about putting together something simple which all kids will enjoy. So why not have something like a fun mirror but using modern tech. Check out the demo video!

*****Still testing out these instructions**** Will update these soon.

Instructions

Download

Grab the code from my github page.
https://github.com/Botmation

Download the model weight from the Tensorflow demo site.

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/g3doc/detection_model_zoo.md

Grab the file named "mask_rcnn_inception_v2_coco"

Place the file in the models folder.

Setup Environment

I have chosen to build this project in Anaconda. If don't have it get it at https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/

On my github page look for "halloween.yml"

Open the anaconda prompt.

Navigate to the project folder location. Then create a new environment using my template.

conda env create -f halloween.yml

This will create a custom python environment with all the requirements automatically. It may take some time to build. Then activate the environment.

conda activate halloween

Run the code

python cam_mask_rcnn.py