Cam Scroller

This extension lets a user scroll webpages using webcam gestures.
What is Cam Scroller?
Cam Scroller is an open-source Chrome extension that uses your webcam and deeplearn.js to enable scrolling through webpages using custom gestures that you define. It makes use of the deeplearn.js KNN image classifier. This simple Chrome extension is meant to show the types of experiences that can be enabled through the use of browser-based machine learning.

Extension stats

By: jwexler
Users: 50 ▲ 4
Rating: 1.00 (2)
Version: 0.1.2 (Last updated: 2018-03-29)
Creation date: 2018-03-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 176.13K

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Cam Scroller is an open-source Chrome extension that uses your webcam and deeplearn.js to enable scrolling through webpages using custom gestures that you define.

Check out the code at https://github.com/PAIR-code/cam-scroller

It makes use of the deeplearn.js KNN image classifier. In doing so, your webcam images are processed locally on your machine and at no time is any information collected or sent externally.

This simple Chrome extension is meant to show, through a minimal example, the types of experiences that can be enabled through the use of browser-based machine learning.

This is not an officially supported Google product.

User reviews

can confirm, it does not explain how to use, and trying stuff doesn't really make it work. Not sure what to do with it. It recognizes scrolling. That's about it
by Dr Nobody, 2024-03-12

no clear instructions, doesn't work.
by Mustafa Gelgec, 2020-03-25
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Cam Scroller requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Cam Scroller has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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