📌 Introduction

• The project was initiated during Winter of Code 1.0 by DSC IIIT Kalyani and is currently under development.
• The idea behind this is to facilitate a video calling service built with python sockets(IPv4) and Open-CV, which replaces the users voice by a robotic/AI voice and the video by a neon projection of the users face on a black screen for anonimity purposes.
  

📌 Who can contribute? 📷

• Pythonistas
• Web developers
• Beginner? Yes. Contact the project admin and mentor on discord for any help :)

📌 Snapshot of the connected system 📷

📌 To-Do List/ In Progress🔄

• Add documentation #2
• Transfer audio over the connection #3
• Improve facial landmark detection #8

📌 Setting up 🛠

1. Create a Conda environment.

conda create -name myenv python=3.6

2. Navigate into your newly created environment (from command line).

cd C:\...\path-to-your-conda-environment\

conda activate myenv

3. Installing modules we will need.

conda install -c conda-forge dlib

conda install -c conda-forge opencv

📌 Running the code ✔

• Fork and clone this repo
• Make sure your clone resides into the conda environment you created
• Run server.py and client.py in two different cmd windows/terminals

📌 Getting Started ⭐

Refer to the following articles on the basics of Git and Github and can also contact the Project Mentors, in case you are stuck:

• If you don't have git on your machine, install it.
• Watch this video to get started, if you have no clue about open source
• Forking a Repo
• Cloning a Repo
• How to create an Issue
• How to create a Pull Request
• Getting started with Git and GitHub

📜 Instructions to follow while contributing to VCallZer

Are you a newbie in the world of open source and want to Contribute to our Open Source Project ? Don't worry we got your back

Below are the steps to follow to contribute to this project:

1. Fork this repository.

2. Clone your forked copy of the project.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/<your_user_name>/VCallZer.git

where your_user_name is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the first-contributions repository on GitHub to your computer.

3. Navigate to the project directory :file_folder: .

cd VCallZer

4. Add a reference(remote) to the original repository.

git remote add upstream https://github.com/akshitadixit/VCallZer.git 

5. Check the remotes for this repository.

git remote -v

6. Always take a pull from the upstream repository to your master branch to keep it at par with the main project(updated repository).

git pull upstream master

7. Create a new branch.

git checkout -b <your_branch_name>

8. Make necessary changes and commit those changes

9. Track your changes:heavy_check_mark: .

git add . 

10. Commit your changes .

git commit -m "Relevant message"

11. Push the committed changes in your feature branch to your remote repo.

git push -u origin <your_branch_name>

12. To create a pull request, click on compare and pull requests. Please ensure you compare your feature branch to the desired branch of the repo you are suppose to make a PR to.

13. Add appropriate title and description to your pull request explaining your changes and efforts done.

14. Click on Create Pull Request.

15. Hurray :exclamation: You have created a PR to the VCallZer :boom: . Sit back patiently and relax till then the project maintainers will review your PR. Please understand, there will be some time taken to review a PR and can vary from a few hours to a few days too so be Patient and keep contributing.

📌 Till Then

Note: The voice modulation and GUI part is still being worked upon.

👍OpenSource Program

This project is a part of this open source progam.

📌 Guidelines for LGM-SOC'21

Expected time period for submitting a pull request for each level:

• Level 1 - 1 Day
• Level 2 - 2 Days
• Level 3 - 3 Days
• Level 4 - 5-6 Days

If you need extra time, do comment on the issue and let the maintainer know.

📌 The geeks🤓 behind this initiative :

Thanks goes to these Wonderful People. Contributions of any kind are welcome! :grinning:

Akshita Dixit	Shiva Sankeerth Reddy	Supritha	Vedant Jayesh Oza
Jigar Sable	Sidhved Warik	Eric Hamers	Ayush Soni	Umesh Singh	Samrendra Kumar Singh

Overall Winner🏆