Host the Image Captioning API on cloud provider and expose it.

[shashank6341]

• Run the installations on remote server.
• Clone the repo.
• Host the application on remote server and expose it to the public internet.

[Khyati-Bareja]

EC2 instance hosted : Type - t2.xlarge image - ami-0ed90a3b5bde5e371 keyPair assigned - HCI-Project.pem Storage - 30 gb 4 vCPUs

Steps Taken:

0) Start the instance, once status = Running , ssh to the instance : ssh -i "HCI-Project.pem" ec2-user@ec2-3-99-154-114.ca-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com (default user: ec2-user)

1) sudo yum update

2) sudo su ( Login to root user )

3)cd /home/ec2-user

4) sudo yum install python3-pip

Check if the python is installed correctly ( python 3.x.x )

5) pip install transformers torch pillow

6) pip3 install flask

7) on the local cd /to/path/at/HCI-Project.pem

8) change permissions :

chmod 700 HCI-Project.pem

9) scp the image_captioning.py to the ec2 instance:

scp -i /Users/khyati/Downloads/HCI-Project.pem /Users/khyati/Documents/Vision-Walk-HCI/image_captioning.py ec2-user@ec2-3-99-154-114.ca-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:~/

10) change ownership of the file :

chown root:root image_captioning.py

11) change permissions :

chmod 700 image_captioning.py

12) execute the file :

python3 image_cpationing.py