Social media instant photo booth

• Main Author: Zhu, Chenyang
• Other Authors: Deepu Rajan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62785
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Thanks to the high penetration of smartphone and wide usage of social media, people could take pictures easier and faster to capture their memorable moments and save in digital space. Compared to the film camera age, demand of photo prints is no more a necessity, but there are still needs to keep some photos in hardcopy for lasting memory, e.g. birthday party, weddings etc. This report record the process to create the First All-Round Social Media Instant Photo Booth, which aims to avoid the hassles and time consumption for people to print in traditional printing shops. The hardware and software architecture are elaborated in details. Algorithm and workflow are explained with figures and tables. Extensive troubleshooting and tuning are executed to achieve system stability. The eventual product successfully meets the expectation and starts to commercialize in photo booth industry. Further exploration on data analysis and image processing are discussed for future development.