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by StavrosK 3180 days ago
Does anyone know what this uses under the hood? I loved the demo, but I would like a similarly easy way to get started locally with Python, for example.

Is there an ML library that can easily start capturing images from the webcam so you can play around with training a model?

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I'm pretty sure this is actually pretrained as a few shot learning model under the hood, so that's a bit hard. For the camera part at least: http://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tu...

and you could do worse then this https://github.com/fchollet/keras/blob/master/examples/mnist...

It says it in the video: https://deeplearnjs.org
he is not asking for the learning library
What does he ask then? The whole code of this is on Github.
Took me best guess, your answer is indeed more useful
Yes, there is! http://www.wekinator.org

(It is not a Python application but a Java application, but still as fun!)

> a Java application, but still as fun!

Your unbridled optimism even in the face of reality has inspired me to give this a shot, thank you! It seems to be based on Weka, so it should be good.

On a first run, I don't really see how to record images from the webcam, it just says "waiting for samples". I'll play around some more and hopefully figure it out, thanks again.

EDIT: Ah, there's a detailed walkthrough which seems to work well!