Moments

Moments is a photo-sharing social networking application developed using Python and the Flask web framework. The application allows users to share and explore photos within a social platform. We introduced two machine learning-powered features into the platform:

1. Alternative Text Generation: Automatically generates alternative text (alt-text) for uploaded images using Azure Computer Vision API.
2. Image Search: Uses object detection and image tagging to identify objects present in uploaded images. And enables keyword-based image search by allowing users to find images based on detected objects or tags.

Instructions

We are using Azure Computer Vision API for introducing the above ML features. Please follow the below steps to create the same -

1. Sign in to Azure Portal
2. Create a New Resource
3. Configure the Resource by adding the Subscription, Resource Group, Region, Name and Pricing Tier
4. Review & Create
5. Once the resource is created, get API Key & Endpoint and update it in the code.
6. Create a .env file to copy the API Key & Endpoint and set up the environment variables.

Create a virtual environment using 'venv' and run the following commands

1. Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
2. pip install azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis
3. pip install azure-cognitiveservices-vision-computervision

Next, to initialize the app, run the flask init-app command:

$ pdm run flask init-app

If you just want to try it out, generate fake data with flask lorem command then run the app:

$ pdm run flask lorem

It will create a test account:

• email: admin@helloflask.com
• password: moments

Now you can run the app:

$ pdm run flask run
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/