Full Stack Image Upscaler

• Upload any image and watch as it is upscaled with Python
• Lets you Colorize black and white images (will create app backend 1st then replace with react front end)

NOTE: Remember to enter 'source sendgrid.env' before running app.py (for sendgrid)

Technologies Used:

• Python/Flask (Backend)
• React/JavaScript (Frontend)
• Bootstrap
• Fontawesome (Icons)
• Sendgrid API (sending pictures via emails)
• MMS eText (sending pictures via SMS)

Objectives / Goals:

• Able to upload image (specify quality?)
• Backend recieves it and upscales it
• [ ] User redirected to display page
• User can view image and send via email or MMS (NOTE: attachments blocked on phone, size too big?)
• Route to Colorize B&W Image Page
• Route to Resize Image Page

Resources:

• ** OpenCV image upscaling: https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-based-super-resolution-with-opencv-4fd736678066
• Colorizing Images with python:
• • Geeks for geeks colorizing: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/black-and-white-image-colorization-with-opencv-and-deep-learning/
• • pyimagesearch: https://pyimagesearch.com/2019/02/25/black-and-white-image-colorization-with-opencv-and-deep-learning/
• Make pretty CSS: https://neumorphism.io/#e0e0e0
• How to connect Flask to ReactJs: https://dev.to/nagatodev/how-to-connect-flask-to-reactjs-1k8i
• Use sound library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/use-sound
• Resize images with opencv:
• • Tutorialkart: https://www.tutorialkart.com/opencv/python/opencv-python-resize-image/
• • Geeks for geeks: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/image-resizing-using-opencv-python/
• sendgrid: free email templates and using email templates with the api:
• • https://sendgrid.com/blog/create-html-emails/
• • https://sendgrid.com/free-templates/
• Sendgrid API keys: https://docs.sendgrid.com/ui/account-and-settings/api-keys
• Gmail App Passwords (For Sendgrid): https://wpmailsmtp.com/gmail-less-secure-apps/#Option_2_Use_an_App_Password
• Gmail Docs: App passwords: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
• Sendgrid 403 Error: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59739152/getting-a-strange-error-403-forbidden-for-accessing-an-api-through-python
• Colorization github script by Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros. :
• • https://github.com/richzhang/colorization/
• • https://github.com/richzhang/colorization/tree/caffe
• Send text messages for free with sms gateways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ysecoraKo
• Python Image Resize With Pillow and OpenCV: https://cloudinary.com/guides/bulk-image-resize/python-image-resize-with-pillow-and-opencv