roboflow / rickblocker

Audio visual mitigation of Rickrolls using computer vision.

Computer Vision Rick Astley Muter

This project utilizes an advanced computer vision model to mute your speakers when Rick Astley is detected on your screen.

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• See it in action on YouTube,
• Read more on our blog or
• Download the dataset and try the model on Roboflow Universe.

How to Use

Use OBS's Virtual Camera feature to pipe your screen through to your web browser.

Clone this repo, cd into the server directory and npm install the dependencies.

Start the web server with sudo node index.js.

Navigate to http://localhost:5000 and use OBS Webcam as the video source.

Try to rickroll yourself. Your audio will mute when Rick is on screen and unmute otherwise.

Tools Used

The data behind the model was collected, annotated, and trained using a free Roboflow account.