In this project, I created a Computer Vision based Naruto game.......BELIEVE IT!!!
I wrote a quick blog post about the project on my website https://engineeringsapien.com/narutocv-blog. You can learn more about it there. Click on the image above to get a peak of the game.
The aim was to bring the Naruto world to life. Namely, I trained a Convolutional Neural Network to recognize Naruto hand signs.
From there, I recreated a simplied version of the classic Naruto Arena game that incorporated the hand recognition model. The result: a game where you 'attack' by preforming Naruto-style hand signs to activate jutsus!
Currently, the only way to play it is to download the code from my github here. I have instructions for doing so on the blog post.
Disclaimer: There are several parties for which I owe much credit to:
Naruto-Arena - The whole game idea was pretty much just a copy of Naruto Arena. Also, most of the character icons and attack icons I used in the game came from their website. So I owe the creators of that gem a big thank you. Naruto Arena was a legendary game to say the least. Here is the OG Naruto Arena website https://naruto-arena.net/
VGG16 - This is the deep learning model I used in this project. It is a model by K. Simonyan and A. Zisserman. Here is their paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1556
Brenner Heintz - A major help was Brenner Heintz. For a while, I struggled to get the model to learn anything and it wasn't until I came across Brenner's article (https://towardsdatascience.com/training-a-neural-network-to-detect-gestures-with-opencv-in-python-e09b0a12bdf1) did things start to come together. It was Brenner who convinced me to use the VGG16 model as well as thresholded images instead of colored images.
sk89q and The Risen Realm and Keiichi Anime Forever - The font used in the game was designed by sk89q and is property of The Risen Realm and Keiichi Anime Forever
Masashi Kishimoto - It goes without saying but the holders of the copyrighted and/or trademarked material appearing in this project belong to NARUTO © 2002 MASASHI KISHIMOTO. All Rights Reserved.