smART

Inspiration

We wanted to create a webapp that could help people around the world to find similar artworks to those that they liked.

What it does

smART is a webapp that uses a machine learning algorithm to recommend new art! You can import your own art or click any of the suggestions to have similar art shown. Our model can recognize all types of art - from sculptures to paintings to sketches; then recommend similar ones! Whether you're looking for inspiration or simply want to browse, this is the place for you.

How we built it

The frontend of the webapp runs on flask and bootstrap. The user can upload an image or open a suggested image, which calls a tensorflow model on the backend that generates a list of suggestions. All of this is hosted on firebase so that it's accessible anywhere!

Challenges we ran into

We had some trouble figuring out how to use firebase.
It took us a long time to figure out how to upload user images and display the image that the user uploaded.
Flask was overriding the css file we coded, so to took some time to fix that.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a machine leaning algorithm that can output a similar looking image according to an image the user uploads. Our website is simple, with only one button to upload an image of an artwork and a suggested artworks section.

What we learned

Splitting up tasks well saved our bacon as there were timezone differences and some other problems. We learned how to allow user to upload their own images and display the images they uploaded.