In recent years, computer vision has flourished in the field of artificial intelligence, providing us with many powerful tools and technologies. Among them, mediapipe is a popular open source library that provides a complete set of computer vision algorithms and application programming interfaces (APIs) to help developers easily build various vision-related projects. This article will introduce how to install mediapipe using pip as well as some common usage and sample code.
Install mediapipe
First, we need to install the mediapipe library. In Python, it can be installed via the pip command. Please make sure you have installed Python and pip, and make sure the network connection is normal. Open a terminal or command prompt and enter the following command:
pip install mediapipe
This command automatically downloads and installs the mediapipe library from the Python Package Index (PyPI). Once installed, you can use it in your Python program.
import mediapipe
Before using mediapipe, we first need to import its module. In a Python program, external modules are imported through the import keyword. The following is sample code to import mediapipe:
import mediapipe as mp
In the above code, we import the mediapipe library as mp. This is a common convention and is convenient for use in code.
Example: hand key point detection
mediapipe provides a series of