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Creating Instagram and Facebook AR Filters with Spark AR Studio (Part 4)

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Camera effects have become a very normal part of daily social media or really any camera experience on the internet nowadays. With the whole pandemic situation, video calls have become way more popular, and to add a bit of artistic fun to the plain camera outputs, a lot of apps have integrated AR filters that overlay the face or change your background to hide that messy room.

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Behavior Scripts in Lens Studio: The Basics

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What is a behavior script? While initially this term looks complicated, it’s actually a surprisingly simple Lens Studio feature that allows you to turn your static projects into dynamic, interactive experiences.

You can find them in pretty much any Lens; from the most complex 3D experience, to a simple blush face paint Lens; Behavior scripts serve many functions and cover a wide range of commands in Lens Studio.

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Scan Barcodes on Android Using Google’s On-Device ML Kit

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Google’s on-device ML Kit recently introduced another API for barcode scanning. It can read and scan almost a dozen different types of barcodes including Codabar, Code 39, Code 93, EAN-8, EAN-13, QR code, PDF417, and more.

The barcode scanning API also tells you the scanned format and it will automatically detect the formats. The other main feature of this API is that you can use it in your application without a network connection and it will support the different orientation.

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Best Features Of Spark AR Studio to Build AR-Powered Lens

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Augmented Reality (AR) is a digital virtual interface that overlaps created images on top of the real world, generally through a phone. AR necessitates the use of an app to provide the consumer with a superior experience. But people can be adamant about not installing another app. But there’s a solution to reaching your audience without asking them to download — using their already existing apps.

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Swipeless Tinder Using iOS 14 Vision Hand Pose Estimation

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The introduction of iOS 14 brought in a slew of enhancements and interesting new features in Apple’s computer vision framework.

Vision framework was released in 2017 in a bid to allow mobile application developers to leverage complex computer vision algorithms with ease. Specifically, the framework incorporates a host of pre-trained deep learning models whilst also acting as a wrapper to quickly run your own custom Core ML models.

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MLDeploy and Connect an Amazon EC2 Instance for Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

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Cloud computing is very much a buzzword in the machine learning community, but what does it really mean?

It turns out, cloud computing can be a real lifesaver for your machine learning needs, and it doesn’t need to break the bank.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to quickly set up an Amazon EC2 instance for under a dollar and connect to it via SSH.

Now, if none of that made sense, don’t sweat it. This tutorial is intended for beginners, so you don’t need to know anything about Amazon Web Services to follow along.

By the end, you’ll have a computer running in the cloud, which you can connect to and use for almost anything!

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