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.

Table of contents

• Description
• Technologies used
• Results
• How it works
• Contributors

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

Input	Background	Result

How It Works

$ git clone https://github.com/neatpun/real-time-background-replacement

1. Live Webcam Front

• cd "Live Webcam Front"
• install dependencies
• python live_webcam.py

2. 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

3. 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