Virtual cats need love too. But how can we pet them? With the help of an AI of course!
Artificial intelligence is used to generate new cats and to track user’s hand movement.
How to use: After the app has loaded (may take some time) hold your hand in front of your webcam from 30 cm – 2 meters away in decent lighting.
https://eetu-kari.github.io/you-can-pet-the-cat/
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Tools used:
AI generated cat pictures: (https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/)
Hand tracking AI: Tensorflow (https://www.tensorflow.org/), MediaPipe Handpose (https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/handpose)
App made with React (https://reactjs.org/)
App hosted on GitHub (https://pages.github.com/)