Linux-Fake-Webcam (OBS Source Fork)

Branch of Linux Fake Webcam for using as a Browser Source in OBS (Studio).

Setup:

• Set up a python 3 environment, and run python -m pip install -r requirements.txt to install all dependencies
• Edit the variables REAL_CAMERA, REAL_CAMERA_WIDTH, and REAL_CAMERA_HEIGHT to the index and dimensions of your webcam.
• run python greenscreen.py to launch the program. A preview window will appear showing the output to a greenscreen.
• Add localhost:7777 as a browser source in OBS. Set its dimensions to the same specified above.
• To exit the program, focus the preview window and press the q key

Credits

Ben Elder

https://elder.dev/posts/open-source-virtual-background/ Wrote the original script

rogierhofboer on HackerNews

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823070 Translated the get_mask function to Python

Anil Sathyan aka anilsathyan7

https://github.com/anilsathyan7/Portrait-Segmentation Model file used

Fangfufu on Github

https://github.com/fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam Guidance on getting v4l2loopback working

Lukas Vacula aka ldv8434

The original get_mask function from rogierhofboer only worked under Tensorflow v1. I've ported it to v2, and made some other adjustments to the original script from Ben Elder.

Requirements (based on arch repo names)

python-tensorflow python-opencv