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PeekingDuck is an open-source, modular framework in Python, built for Computer Vision (CV) inference. The name "PeekingDuck" is a play on: "Peeking" in a nod to CV; and "Duck" induck typing.

• PeekingDuck enables you to build powerful CV pipelines with minimal lines of code.

• PeekingDuck comes with variousobject detection,pose estimation,object tracking, andcrowd counting models. Mix and match different nodes to construct solutions for varioususe cases.

• You can createcustom nodes to meet your own project's requirements. PeekingDuck can also beimported as a library to fit into your existing workflows.

Install fromPyPI usingpip

> pip install peekingduck

Note: for users with ARM-based devices such as a Raspberry Pi or Apple Silicon Mac, please refer to the documentation for more detailedinstallation instructions.

PeekingDuck can also beinstalled in a virtual environment.

> peekingduck verify-install

You should see a video of a person waving his hand withbounding boxes overlaid.

The video will close automatically when it is run to the end, select the video window and pressq to exit earlier.

Create a project folder and initialize a PeekingDuck project.

> mkdir <project_dir>> cd <project_dir>> peekingduck init

Run the demo pipeline.

> peekingduck run

If you have a webcam, you should see a man waving on the output screen withskeletal frame overlaid.

Terminate the program by clicking on the output screen and pressingq.

Usepeekingduck --help to display help information for PeekingDuck's command-line interface.

This project is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore under its AI Singapore Programme (AISG-RP-2019-050). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of National Research Foundation, Singapore.

PeekingDuck is under the open sourceApache License 2.0 (:

Even so, your organization may require legal proof of its right to use PeekingDuck, due to circumstances such as the following:

• Your organization is using PeekingDuck in a jurisdiction that does not recognize this license
• Your legal department requires a license to be purchased
• Your organization wants to hold a tangible legal document as evidence of the legal right to use and distribute PeekingDuck

Contact us if any of these circumstances apply to you.

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