Would you make a colab version?

[cedro3]

I am very interested in the colab version. Would you make a colab version?

[davrempe]

As mentioned #4 I do not currently plan on making a colab version, as I foresee some difficulties with getting it to work. However, I will leave this issue open with a few notes in case anyone else wants to give it a shot.

The first difficulty is that the environment set up (especially for Monocular Total Capture and TOWR) is not trivial and may be difficult from a notebook. The easiest would be to use docker, but I'm not sure how well docker works in colab.

The second more significant issue is that Monocular Total Capture currently requires an X backend (i.e. a machine with a GUI) to run properly, so operation on a headless server is not possible. After some quick searching, it looks like colab instances don't have an X server by default (see here). This means some substantial changes would need to be made to Monocular Total Capture in order for things to work as discussed in this issue.