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ContextCam is a project from HackPrinceton Spring 2017. ContextCam runs on the Raspberry PI with a RPi Cameram, a single push button, and a mobile power source. It takes a picture, runs it through Watson and Indico to get context about the image. Then, through use of nltk and PyDictionary, it generates a description about the image and outputs as audio.

The positioning of the object is important, preferably in the center with a monochromatic background for better results. It currently takes top three predictions and forms a description with them. For emotional analysis, it gets the top three emotions and describes the person.

Demo

Project at devpost

• main.py The main process, does API calls, receive button and camera inputs, process labels, grammar, outputs to audio. All dependencies can be found at the top of the file to download.
• settings.py Not present but has the Watson BlueMix API authentication.
• .indicorc Also not present, stored in home directory and has Indico API authentication.

1. Bird, Steven, Edward Loper and Ewan Klein (2009), Natural Language Processing with Python. O’Reilly Media Inc.