Medium⏱ time1.5 hr$ cost0

Webcam Object Detector

Run a pre-trained model that names and boxes objects in your camera view live.

Result first

The build

Step 01

Bring in a pre-trained object detector.

Step 02

Feed webcam frames to the model.

Step 03

Box and name each detected object.

Step 04

Point it at things around you.

Working Principle

The pre-trained model recognises dozens of common objects and returns each one's label and location in the frame.

The science behind it

Object detection finds and classifies many items at once; the model was trained on a huge labelled image set.

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