ncs_digital_sign:

Introduction

This digital signage app dynamically outputs advertisements based on facial detection and age/gender inference using the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2.

The example does face detection on a camera frame using face-detection-retail.0004, crops the detected faces, then does age and gender inference using the age-gender network. The example outputs different advertisements based on user’s demographics using the age-gender-recognition model. All models can be found on the Open Model Zoo. This sample uses pre-compiled IRs, so the model optimizer is not utilized.

Images in the advertisement_images directory are subject to the licenses.txt file within the directory.

Building the Example

To run the example code do the following :

1. Open a terminal and change directory to the sample base directory
2. Type the following command in the terminal: make all

Running the Example

After building the example you can run the example code by doing the following :

1. Open a terminal and change directory to the sample base directory
2. Type the following command in the terminal: make run

When the application runs normally, another window should pop up and show the feed from the webcam/usb cam. The program should perform inferences on faces on frames taken from the webcam/usb cam.

Prerequisites

This program requires:

• 1 NCS1/NCS2 device
• OpenVINO 2020.1 Toolkit
• A webcam (laptop or USB)

Note: All development and testing has been done on Ubuntu 16.04 on an x86-64 machine. ARM devices may be supported, but has not been verified.

Makefile

Provided Makefile has various targets that help with the above mentioned tasks.

make run

Runs the sample application.

make help

Shows available targets.

make all

Builds and/or gathers all the required files needed to run the application.

make data

Gathers all of the required data need to run the sample.

make deps

Builds all of the dependencies needed to run the sample.

make install_reqs

Checks required packages that aren’t installed as part of the OpenVINO installation.

make uninstall_reqs

Checks required packages that are able to be uninstalled.

make clean

Removes all the temporary files that are created by the Makefile.

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