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depth-estimation

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Real-time depth map privacy transforms using Depth Anything v2 (CoreML + PyTorch)

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Depth Estimation (Privacy)

Real-time monocular depth estimation using Depth Anything v2. Transforms camera feeds with colorized depth maps — near objects appear warm, far objects appear cool.

When used for privacy mode, the depth_only blend mode fully anonymizes the scene while preserving spatial layout and activity, enabling security monitoring without revealing identities.

Hardware Backends

PlatformBackendRuntimeModel
macOSCoreMLApple Neural Engineapple/coreml-depth-anything-v2-small (.mlpackage)
Linux/WindowsPyTorchCUDA / CPUdepth-anything/Depth-Anything-V2-Small (.pth)

On macOS, CoreML runs on the Neural Engine, leaving the GPU free for other tasks. The model is auto-downloaded from HuggingFace and stored at ~/.aegis-ai/models/feature-extraction/.

What You Get

  • Privacy anonymization — depth-only mode hides all visual identity
  • Depth overlays on live camera feeds
  • 3D scene understanding — spatial layout of the scene
  • CoreML acceleration — Neural Engine on Apple Silicon (3-5x faster than MPS)

Interface: TransformSkillBase

This skill implements the TransformSkillBase interface. Any new privacy skill can be created by subclassing TransformSkillBase and implementing two methods:

from transform_base import TransformSkillBase

class MyPrivacySkill(TransformSkillBase):
    def load_model(self, config):
        # Load your model, return {"model": "...", "device": "..."}
        ...

    def transform_frame(self, image, metadata):
        # Transform BGR image, return BGR image
        ...

Protocol

Aegis → Skill (stdin)

{"event": "frame", "frame_id": "cam1_1710001", "camera_id": "front_door", "frame_path": "/tmp/frame.jpg", "timestamp": "..."}
{"command": "config-update", "config": {"opacity": 0.8, "blend_mode": "overlay"}}
{"command": "stop"}

Skill → Aegis (stdout)

{"event": "ready", "model": "coreml-DepthAnythingV2SmallF16", "device": "neural_engine", "backend": "coreml"}
{"event": "transform", "frame_id": "cam1_1710001", "camera_id": "front_door", "transform_data": "<base64 JPEG>"}
{"event": "perf_stats", "total_frames": 50, "timings_ms": {"transform": {"avg": 12.5, ...}}}

Setup

python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt