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3D Photo Inpainting with Python and PyTorch

A comprehensive guide to setting up and using 3D Photo Inpainting on Windows, including Miniconda environment setup, dependency installation, and usage instructions.

Published: May 12, 2023 | Last Modified: May 13, 2025

OpenAI Whisper Speech Recognition Guide

Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

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Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

Fix CUDA not detecting GPU

Whisper will default to the CPU if a GPU is not detected, which is considerably slower.
pip uninstall torch
pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu116

Example usage

# Transcribe
whisper input.mp3 --model medium.en --language en --task transcribe
# Translate
whisper japanese.wav --model large --language Japanese --task translate

Available models and languages

There are five model sizes, four with English-only versions, offering speed and accuracy tradeoffs. Below are the names of the available models and their approximate memory requirements and relative speed.

Published: February 24, 2023 | Last Modified: May 13, 2025

MiDaS Depth Estimation Guide

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During installation, I ran into an issue where the CUDA package wasn’t found. Had to modify environment.yaml to:

name: midas-py310
channels:
  - pytorch
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - nvidia::cuda-toolkit=11.7.0
  - python=3.10.8
  - pytorch::pytorch=1.13.0
  - torchvision=0.14.0
  - pip=22.3.1
  - numpy=1.23.4
  - pip:
    - opencv-python==4.6.0.66
    - imutils==0.5.4
    - timm==0.6.12
    - einops==0.6.0

Commands that were helpful for troubleshooting CUDA:

Published: February 6, 2023 | Last Modified: May 13, 2025

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