jobergs / psycam

PsyCam: a psychedlic Raspberry Pi Surveilance Camera based on DeepDream

PsyCam

Google DeepDream

The Google DeepDream algorithm is a modified neural network. Instead of identifying objects in an input image, it changes the image into the direction of its training data set, which produces impressive surrealistic, dream-like images. You can find the original GitHub repository at https://github.com/google/deepdream/blob/master/dream.ipynb

PsyCam

PsyCam is an extension of the DeepDream for the Raspberry Pi. With the RPi camera module, PsyCam can take a photo and convert it into a DeepDream.

Installation

Either follow the manual installation instructions at

http://www.knight-of-pi.org/deepdream-on-the-raspberry-pi-3-with-raspbian-jessie/

or perform the following steps for the semi-automated installation:

$ mkdir ~/deepdream && cd ~/deepdream
$ git clone https://github.com/JoBergs/PsyCam
$ cd PsyCam
$ python install_tools.py packages
$ python install_tools.py caffe
$ python install_tools.py protobuf
$ python install_tools.py camera
$ sudo reboot

The installation will take half a day or so. The installer script should also work on most modern Ubuntu systems.

Usage

The script psycam.py is controlled via command-line parameters. They are listed with

$python psycam.py --help

Start PsyCam with randomized layer and octave. This requires an attached and enabled Raspberry Pi camera module.

$python psycam.py

Start PsyCam with an input image instead of a camera snapshot (required for non-RPi usage!):

$python psycam.py -i sky_small.jpg

Make snapshots with the given size width height (large sizes will crash the RPi):

$python psycam.py -s 400 300

Make snapshots and convert them to dreams continually:

$python psycam.py -c

Start PsyCam set layer depth, type and octave manually:

$python psycam.py -d 2 -t 1 -o 6

Create a new network model file:

$python psycam.py -n

Output images

The dreams are stored in

~/deepdream/PsyCam/dreams 

with the original photo and tagged with a timestamp.

Have fun

Author: Johannes Bergs

psycam's Issues

continual display of dreams

Thank you for doing this. I actually got it to work! I know it's not really an issue, but can i get the RPi to keep showing images instead of the terminal output? I installed fbi and it's great for showing images but I have to keep issuing commands from the terminal. I guess I have to modify the psych script to programmatically call fbi with subsequent images. Unless you know of a better and simpler way?

Pi4 Ubuntu

Hello,

Thanks for your work.
Is it OK to use with Pi4 and Ubuntu ?
Is there any news with deep dream that is not implemented in your script ?
Is it still the best way to use it on a Pi ?

Regards,