The Virtual Webcam Background project allows you to use a virtual background in for your webcam image in any Linux program that uses a webcam like for example Zoom.
There are also a lot of other filters to make your video conferences more interesting.
(Stock Photo by Marcus Aurelius)
The Software
You can find the software project on GitHub: allo-/virtual_webcam_background.Read more about how to use the software:
How to blur the background. Upload your desired image from your own photo library or select a stock image to feature in your design. Select your photo, then open the Blur menu. Use the sliding scale to adjust your photo. ChromaCam allows you to replace your background or blur your background where ever you go. Use on your existing video conferencing solution ChromaCam works on all the latest video conferencing softwares such as Zoom, WebEx, BlueJean, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet. Present and build your brand. Virtual WebcamA program to replace the background in your webcam image. The Virtual Webcam Background project allows you to use a virtual background in for your webcam image in any Linux program that uses a webcam like for example Zoom. There are also a lot of other filters to make your video conferences more interesting.
Inspiration
The program is inspired by the virtual background function of Zoom, that works only on Windows with a neural network and requires a green screen on Linux.Benjamin Elder showed in a blog post how to combine the body-pix nodejs module with a python program for grabbing webcam images and sending the processed images to a virtual webcam. A direct implementation of the blog post can be found here.
As the programs in the post use a rather inefficient approach by sending the images via HTTP, I decided to try to implement it in one single python program, by using the body-pix model with the tensorflow python module and a python reimplementation of the neccessary functions to process the data for body-pix.
In addition I implemented a filter API, that allow for useful and funny filters, see the gallery below for a few examples.
Backgrounds
Use your favorite search engine and search for 'zoom backgrounds' ;-).A few sites:
When you know other good sites with free to use images, send me a short E-Mail.Example Images
Image Packs
Some image packs that are not included with the program.
Did you made a nice image pack? E-Mail me and I'll add it here.
Please include the license and attribution information.