Cam Scroller

Cam Scroller

This extension lets a user scroll webpages using webcam gestures.

Cam Scroller
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.
Stats
By: jwexler
Users: 40
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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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 Dr Nobody, 2024-03-12

no clear instructions, doesn't work.
by Mustafa Gelgec Mustafa Gelgec, 2020-03-25
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Safety
Risk impact

Cam Scroller is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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