deep-vision-4u

A program for manipulating your video streams.

Compose your visual effects and send them to a virtual camera, then open the virtual camera from other programs such as Google Meet.

Enjoy it!

Project structure

• deep-vision-4u.py: script for main application script using the dddpy package
• dddpy: package implementing a video processing framework
  • dddpy-example.py: script for an example application script using the dddpy package

Dependencies

Virtual Camera

To set output on a virtual camera, a virtual camera which have to be installed first.

For Windows or MAC install OBS, for Linux install v4l2loopback (see pyvirtualcam documentation).

How to Install v4l2loopback on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Reference

wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback-dkms_0.12.4-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i v4l2loopback-dkms_0.12.4-1_all.deb

Create and test a Virtual Camera on Linux

Reference

sudo modprobe -r v4l2loopback
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback devices=1 exclusive_caps=1,1 video_nr=5 card_label="deepVision4u Camera"
v4l2-ctl --list-devices -d5

to remove virtual cam

sudo modprobe -r v4l2loopback

Technical Notes

Managing anaconda environment

Reference

Export deep-vision-4u environment in environment.yml

conda activate deep-vision-4u
conda env export > env_ubuntu_18_04.yml

Remove deep-vision-4u environment

conda remove --name deep-vision-4u --all

Create environment from the environment.yml and list all environments

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda env list

Install OpenCV and pyvirtualcam on Win & Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

conda activate deep-vision-4u
conda install pip

pip3 install -I opencv-contrib-python
pip3 install pyvirtualcam

Create EXE

pip3 install pyinstaller
pip3 install auto-py-to-exe