Practical Exercise: Create background removing application for Zoom/Skype

Introduction

This lesson is an exercise for everyone to apply machine learning to regular applications that we might need. We will create an application that can take the input from the webcam, remove the background from persons (without any green screen), and then transfer it to a virtual device that can be selected by other applications like Zoom or Skype. We will use only Linux operating system for virtual device creation and provide instructions on how to create DirectShow virtual camera devices on windows using OBS-virtual-Camera DLLs.