A-Eye Generator

Transforming depth maps into visually informative images for accessibility and understanding.

Overview

The A-Eye Generator extends the functionality of the public A-Eye web tool. This repository is the core engine for turning depth maps into images that aid in visual perception and interpretation.

Key Features

• Image Generation: Effortlessly convert depth maps into visually-stimulating images. Provides a programmatic interface to interact with ComfyUI, making it automatable.
• Object Bounding Box Drawer: Highlight objects of interest within the generated images with outlined bounding boxes. Positioning data sourced from web tool at depth map render-time via the Export JSON button.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10.6: Any later version should work, but is not expressly supported.
• ComfyUI: Whatever the latest version is will do the trick!

Installation

Part 1: a-eye-generator

• Firstly, clone this repository to your machine with:

git clone https://github.com/A-Eye-Project-for-CSC1028/a-eye-generator.git

• Once these items are completed, you should create a Python venv in the root of the newly-cloned repository:

python -m venv venv

• You'll need a customised version of PyTorch installed to your device, depending on its capabilities. To get the correct one, head over to their Get Started section and configure your install.

• Then, install all required dependencies from requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Part 2: ComfyUI

To actually generate the images, you'll need: ComfyUI, a pre-trained Stable Diffusion model, and a "Depth Control LoRA" model. Let's obtain these three things now...

• Download the latest release of ComfyUI from their official GitHub repository here.

• Then, download any image-to-image safetensors model you desire - I've been using sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors from StabilityAI on Hugging Face. It's available here.

• Once that download completes, move the safetensors file into the ComfyUI/models/checkpoints folder.

• Next, clone the following repository into the ComfyUI/models/controlnet folder:

git clone https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/control-lora

There's only one more thing to do in the name of setup - we need to tell a-eye-generator where ComfyUI is located...

Pointing a-eye-generator to ComfyUI

If you look at this repository's file structure, you should see a .config file - it contains the location where ComfyUI is installed to on your device. The default is COMFY_DIRECTORY="D:\Comfy for Stable Diffusion\User Interface\ComfyUI", as this is where I have my installation stored. For this repository to work, you need to update this with your ComfyUI folder.

To do this, navigate to the ComfyUI folder - please note, it's not the root folder with the .bat files; it's the ComfyUI folder within that directory that we need. See the below image highlighting this:

Copy the file path of that folder, and paste it into the .config file.

Once that's completed, you should be set to work with A-Eye! See usage for more details.

Usage

When using an image-to-image model, we need a source image to base all of our generated output on. We need to 'upload' this/these image(s) to ComfyUI.

To do this, navigate to ComfyUI/input and drop your image(s) there. You can call it/them whatever you like - just make sure to update the file name(s) in the generation script, too.

Now you're ready to start generating your very own 3D-model-based AI art!

Contributing

Contributions are most welcome! Please see below for more details:

• Open issues for bug reports or feature requests.
• Submit pull requests with code enhancements or new features.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license - please see the linked document for more information.