Install Apple’s Sharp Computer Vision Model on Windows Computer

In this computer vision tutorial, we explain how to install and run locally the Apple’s new computer vision model called SHARP on a Windows computer. SHARP is a model that can generate photorealistic 3D views only on the basis of a single image. Sharp obtains a 3D Guassian representation of a depicted scene. This is done in a less than a second.

Installation Procedure

First,  install Nvidia CUDA Compilers using the procedure given here. Then, install Git using this website. Then, open the terminal and do the following

mkdir modelSharp
cd model

Then, clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp

Then, navigate

cd ml-sharp

Create and activate a Python virtual environment:

python -m venv env1
env1\Scripts\activate.bat

Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create input and output folders and store the input images in the input folder

mkdir input

mkdir output

As a test you can use the image given here

To run the model

sharp predict -i ./input -o ./output --render

To view the files:

You can use the following website

https://enter-tainer.github.io/browser-sharp