To enhance the online learning experience, we developed a video conferencing desktop application with a virtual classroom background for a real classroom like experience.

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We came across BodyPix model for detecting and extracting a person in the frame for a smooth virtual backround:

By having same custom background for all the participants, we were able to create an illusion of a single classroom like so:

Then we decided to have a single image as the background and sent just the person cut out from client:

Steps:

Clone branch Develop-phase2

git clone https://github.com/ankitd3/Athena-Virtual-Classroom.git

To create and activate virtual environment

python3 -m venv athena_env

source athena_env/bin/activate

Install requirements

brew install portaudio

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the program!

python3 View/HomePageView.py