Body-Pix on Selvam Subbiah

Change background for videos using TensorFlow.js

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

As most of us are working from home now, it has become a normal thing to set a custom background for our video calls through popular apps such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. In this article, we will look at how to change the background for live webcam videos using TensorFlow.js .

Person Segmentation in action

We will be making use of the BodyPix model which is a pre-trained TensorFlow.js model. This model performs image segmentation - specifically person and human body parts segmentation.

Understanding the Real Time Person Removal project - TensorFlow.js

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Most of us interested in TensorFlow.js would be familiar with the popular demo of disappearing people in real time by Jason Mayes. This is a fantastic example of what is possible using TensorFlow.js in the browser. Jason is gracious to share the code of this application for others to learn and implement their own versions of such applications.

In this article, I will attempt to document and walkthrough this code, so that it helps anyone who is trying to understand the code for this app.