CVDelivery

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  Picture of email sent after package discovery.

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  Picture of the video capture set up

Inspiration

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s critical to minimize all non-essential contact between humans. When looking at our daily interactions, one instance stood out the most; the contact between package deliverers and the user. We sought out to fix this issue.

What it does

We developed an application that will detect when a delivery person has arrived, and notify you via email so that you can pick up your package later without having any direct contact.

How I built it

The Package Delivery Detection uses Google Cloud and the Vision API to detect possible delivery people. This demo video shows this feature with a sample video. This portion of the code was written in Python. Next, a notification system sends the appropriate email to the user, retrieved from when they sign up. The user would then take steps to pick up the package.

What I learned

We learned how to use the Google Vision API, OpenCV, live video capture, Google Cloud Services, and web hosting.

What's next for CVDelivery

We seek to improve our user interface and implement more features that would be benefit to the user.

Built With

• google-cloud
• opencv
• python
• visionapi