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by programmarchy 1707 days ago
Was wondering how easy it'd be to port to native mobile, so went looking for the source code, but doesn't appear to actually be open source. The meat is distributed as binary (WASM for "backend" code and a .bin for model weights).

Aside from being a cool hand tracker, it's a very clever way to distribute closed source JavaScript packages.
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b-3-n 1707 days ago
Thank you for the feedback. You are right that the project is not open source right now. It's "only" MIT licensed. That's why I also don't advertise it as open source (if you see the word open source somewhere it would be a mistake on my end, feel free to tell me if you see it somewhere). I wanted to start out from just an API contract so that it is easier to manage and get started. In general I have no problem open sourcing the JS part. But first there is some refactoring to do so it is easier to maintain upon open sourcing. Stay tuned!

As a side note: The wasm files are actually from the inference engine (tfjs).

Please let me know if you have any more questions in that regard.

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boxfire 1706 days ago
This architecture was also used in the link referenced when bringing up alternative implementations:

https://github.com/google/mediapipe/issues/877#issuecomment-...

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