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Description

This Flask application detects faces in uploaded images, blurs the faces, and overlays sunglasses on them. It utilizes MTCNN for face detection, OpenCV for image processing, and PIL (Python Imaging Library) for image manipulation.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or later
• pip

Steps

1. Clone the repository

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd <repository-name>

2. Set up a virtual environment (optional but recommended)

   • For Unix/macOS:

     python3 -m venv venv
     source venv/bin/activate

   • For Windows:

     python -m venv venv
     .\venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the required dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. TensorFlow Installation Note

   The project uses MTCNN, which depends on TensorFlow. The requirements.txt includes the CPU version of TensorFlow. If you need TensorFlow with GPU support, please install tensorflow-gpu instead by running:

   pip install tensorflow-gpu==2.6.0

Running the Application

1. Start the Flask application

   python app.py

   The application will start running on http://localhost:5000.

2. Using the application

   • The application provides an endpoint /process-image which expects a POST request with an image file.
   • You can use Postman or any other API testing tool to send a request to this endpoint.
   • Postman collection have been included so make sure to attach an image while calling this endpoint
   • Since this is running locally a postman desktop agent is preferred

3. Postman Collection

   • A Postman collection is included in the root folder of the project (Update_Image.json). Import this collection into Postman to easily test the application.
   • Make sure to attach the image you want to process with the request under the form-data section with the key image.
   • The image is already present in the folder were the postman collection is present and the output of the processed image "update_image.png" is present at the project root

Endpoint Details

POST /process-image

• Description: Processes the uploaded image, detects faces, blurs them, and overlays sunglasses.
• Body: multipart/form-data with a key of image and the value being the file you wish to upload.

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