BPlus

What it does

BPlus is a mobile app that uses image recognition to save money when buying books. After scanning the cover of any book, the app will bring up some basic info as well as the retail price at both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Amazon and B&N icons will take you directly to the website where you can purchase the book.

How I built it

Used a modified version of ARCore for image recognition. Loaded the trained model into the app to use. App functionality was in Java, the UI was done in XML.

Challenges I ran into

• Getting the app to recognize and use the Tensorflow model. Spent too much time trying to fix it, ended up switching strategies and re-purposed the ARCore API to do image recognition
• Having no documentation :(
• Finding opensource data to use, everything requires credentials (I have none)

The Presentation

Link to presentation

Built With

• java
• tensorflow