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I'm looking to build a program in python allowing to overlay a video on a video such as 1 video as background and another one on the left top corner. The goal is then to automate it.
I've find methods to overlay images on videos using overlay and watermark but not to overlay videos. Then, I've find methods using FFMPEG but the goal is to make it through Python.
Would you guys have any ideas/resources on the way to 1)overlaying video on video with Python 2) automate the process on a second time ?
Thanks!
PS: I am using Python 3.7 with Windows 10.
One approach regarding this topic is very powerful and generalizable. Since the author of the question did not provide any example, I'll stay in the general case.
Consider a video as a series of pictures (which can be represented as numpy arrays. Once you read the whole series it in, you can do anything with it. Assume the background vid is called video1 and the one in the top left corner video2. Since a picture basically is a matrix you can create a new video with moviepy and in each timestep do the following:
create new numpy array video_combined
write current step of video1 into it
overwrite corresponding pixel values in top left corner with video2 (probably sliced or compressed, use opencv for example)
append this to new video
Alternatively (and a little bit easier), use the concatenation methods of moviepy (documentation link) for mixing videos together which seems to fully fulfill your needs.
Feel free to ask for more details to explain, if this doesn't fit your question already!
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I'm currently trying to write a bot to play tetris on tetrisfriends.com to practice machine-learning, but I've become stuck. I'm trying to find a way to read the players score from the game but Tesseract doesn't recognize the font/numbers and I don't think I can retrain Tesseract to recognize the numbers either because it isn't a full font being used, just numbers.
The image that I'm trying to read the numbers from is this:
https://imgur.com/a/OVwV5
When I use Tesseract I can get it to recognize other words on the page, just not the numbers which is the part I need.
Does anyone have a way to do this, either by retraining Tesseract, another method, or any other way?
I'm not very familiar with Tesseract in particular, but it might not your best bet here. If the end goal was just to make a bot, you could probably pull the text directly from the app rather than worrying about OCR, but if you want to learn more about machine learning and you haven't done them already the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets are fantastic places to start.
Anyway! The image you're trying to test has very low contrast, and the font is heavily stylised. Looking at the website itself it looks like the characters are coloured yellow:
If you preprocessed your image so that yellow pixels are black and all others are white you would have a much cleaner source to work with e.g.:
If you want to push forward with Tesseract for this and the preprocessing isn't enough then you will probably have to retrain it for this font. You will need to prepare a corpus, process it similarly to how you expect your source data to look, and then use something like qt-box-editor to correct the data. This guide should be able to walk you through the basic steps of retraining.
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I am trying to implement some kind of text detection algorithm and I want to separate the image into regions where each region contains different font size.
As in this image, for example:
Is there any easy way to implement it using python and/or opencv? if so, how?
I did tried googling it but could not find anything useful..
Thanks.
This is an interesting question. There are a few steps that you need to take in order to achieve your goals. I hope you are sufficiently informed of basic computer vision algorithm (knowledge in openCV function helps) to understand the steps i am suggesting.
Group all the words together using morphological dilation process.
Use openCV findcountour function to label all the blobs. This will give you the width and height information of each blob as well.
Here is the tricky part, now that you have data on each blob, try to run a clustering algorithm on the data with the location(x,y) and geometry(width,height) as your features.
Once you cluster them correctly, its a matter of finding the leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottom data to draw the bounding rect.
I hope this will provide you enough information to start you work. Its is not detailed but i think its enough to guide you.
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I am trying to find out how to estimate position and orientation of an object using stereo camera images.
Assume a description of an object is given either by its edges and edge-relations, or points, or other features. The images are taken from above by a set of two cameras that have a fixed position relative to each other (like Microsoft Kinect gives you).
With Python's skimage toolkit I am able to recognise the similarites in the picture without telling if the searched object is in the images, but that is as far as I get.
What I want to do more is to segment the known object from the background and to be able to tell its position relatively to the cameras (e.g. by comparing its calculated position with the position of a known mark on the floor or something similar which I don't think will be too hard).
I know Python pretty well and have some experience in basic image processing. If this problem is already solved in OpenCV, I can work with that as well.
Thank you in advance for any help you give, either by naming keywords to improve my search, links, or by sharing your experience in this field!
To illustrate my problem: You have a bunch of same kind (shape+color) lego bricks laying in a chaotic manner, e.g. they are overlaying completely/partially or not at all and have an arbitrary orientation. The floor underneath is of the same color as the bricks. Cameras look straight down. Task is to find as many as bricks as possible and tell there location.
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I am doing a project where I am attempting to take out the green screen on a video on python but I do not know how to go about it.
Thank you!
well...I presume you have some kind of RGB image for each frame of video.
I.e an N by 3 array.
(You could use OpenCV to read each frame.)
So it is case of going through the image and locating all the green and replacing it with what you want.
E.g if the array is called arr then for each row, i, you would check whether arr[i] == [0,255,0].
But due to the nature of film, you aren't going to have a perfectly uniform 0,255,0 green. There will be shadows and other slight variations. Perhaps it wasn't even 0,255,0 to start out with.
So you are going to be looking at removing a range of colours. Now for each row we are searching for a range of colours and replacing them with your choice.
We now run the risk of identifying a colour for removal that we don't actually want removing....so how can we check for that...
We still probably won't get a perfect match around the edges (of the objects/people we want to keep in the image), so to make this less obvious, we might want to use a little bit of blur and so on and so forth.
Look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWoLCFvjME
Try to think about what logic code is required for each little step the user takes.
Also think about all the decision the user makes that are purely subjective. Obviously these would be nigh-on impossible to automate reliably. So now we are talking about some kind of interactive application that allows the user to select different actions based on their subjective choice.
And we quickly see why green screen is often removed manually, frame by frame using a powerful editing application like photoshop, after effects etc...
OpenCV (http://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) will do a lot of the algorithms for you...there is almost enough there to build your interactive greenscreen removal software...
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In sliding window object detectors, is it possible to do object detection "intelligently"? For example, if a human is looking for a vehicle, they're not going to look into the sky for a car. But an object detector that uses a sliding window is going to slide the window across the entire image (including the sky) and run the object classifier on each window, resulting in a lot of wasted time. Are there are any techniques out there to make sure it only looks in reasonable places?
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I understand we'll have to look through everything at least once, but I wouldn't want to run a heavy complicated classifier on each window. A pre-classification classifier of sorts, perhaps?
Have you considered looking at saliency detection algorithms? Saliency detection algorithms give you an indication of where in the image a human would most likely focus on. A good example would be a human in an open field. The sky would have low saliency while the human a high one.
Maybe put your image through a saliency detection algorithm first, then threshold and find regions of where to search instead of the entire image.
A great algorithm for this is by Stas Goferman: Context-Aware Saliency Detection - http://webee.technion.ac.il/~ayellet/Ps/10-Saliency.pdf.
There is also code here to get you started: https://sites.google.com/a/jyunfan.co.cc/site/opensource-1/contextsaliency
Unfortunately it is in MATLAB, and from your tag you want to look at Python. However, there are many similarities between numpy / scipy and MATLAB so hopefully that will help you if you want to transcribe any code.
Check it out!