In traditional messengers, you send messages to another account by sending them to a centralised server interface, which stores and distributes everything to the receiver(s). Some problems emerge from this. For example: Normally, traditional messengers hide everything they store behind thick walls of access control to avoid unwanted access by…

Real time background replacement on a mac os driven webcam using the DeepLabV3 neural network for image segmentation and the native CoreMediaIO DAL framework of Mac OS. The core idea is to create a custom webcam that is readable by the system. For this, Apple provides the CoreMediaIO framework with…