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Convert images and videos into a cartoon!

The webapp is deployed here - https://cartoonize-lkqov62dia-de.a.run.app

<div style="text-align:center"><img height="100" alt="Powered by Algorithmia" style="border-width:0" src="static/sample_images/algorithmia.jpeg" /></div>

You can find a writeup on this webapp's architecture here!

Contents

Prerequisites for Google Cloud and Algorithmia

These are important steps if you want to leverage Google buckets, signed URLs and Algorithmia's platform. Skip this if you want to run locally / colab.

Cloud Run authentication

To use any functionalities pertaining to Google Cloud, you'll need a global authentication file (JSON). You can obtain this JSON by following the steps given here - Getting started with authentication

After you get the JSON file, rename it to token.json (so that it's compatible with the codebase).

Set the environment variable in your terminal -

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/token.json"

Notes:

Algorithmia

We used the Serveless AI Layer product of Algorithmia for inference on videos. To learn more on how to deploy your model in Algorithmia, check here - https://algorithmia.com/developers

Installation

Application tested on:

Using Docker

The easiest way to get the webapp running is by using the Dockerfile:

  1. cd into the root directory and build the image
docker build -t cartoonize .

Note: Set the appropriate values in config.yaml before building the image.

  1. Run the container by exposing the appropriate ports
docker run -p 8080:8080 cartoonize

Using virtualenv

  1. Make a virtual environment using virutalenv and activate it
virtualenv -p python3 cartoonize
source cartoonize/bin/activate
  1. Install python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Run the webapp. Be sure to set the appropriate values in config.yaml file before running the application.
python app.py

Using Google Colab

  1. Clone the repository using either of the below mentioned way:

    • Using Command:

      • Create a new Notebook in Colab and in the cell execute the below command.
       ! git clone https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize.git

      Note: Don't forget to add ! at the beginning of the command

    • From Colab User Interface

       Open Colab
           └── File
                └── Open Notebook
                         └── Github
                               └── paste the Url of the repository

Note : Before running the application change the runtime to GPU for processing videos but you for images CPU shall also work just fine.

           Runtime
              └── Change runtime type
                          └── Select GPU

  1. After cloning the repository navigate to the /cartoonize using below command in the notebook cell:

    %cd cartoonize

  2. Run the below commands in the notebook cell to install the requirements.

    !pip install -r requirements.txt

  3. In config.yaml file set:

    colab-mode: true

  4. Launch the flask app on ngrok

    !python app.py

Note : Sample Google Colab Notebook for reference

Sample Image and Video

Emma Watson Cartoonized

<img alt="Emma Watson Cartoonized" style="border-width:0" src="static/sample_images/twitter_image.png" />

Youtube Video of Avenger's Bar Scene Cartoonized

Cartoonized version of Avenger's bar scene

License

  1. Copyright © Cartoonizer (Demo webapp)

  2. Copyright (C) Xinrui Wang, Jinze Yu. (White box cartoonization)