Collage Segmentation 🎨

Semi-automated tools for extracting vintage biological illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Companion code for "Collagey Segmenty".

Features

• 🖼️ Automated Flickr image retrieval
• ✂️ Filter-based image segmentation
• 🎯 Background removal
• 🔄 Batch processing

Setup

# Install dependencies
./create_env.sh

Usage

# Configure Flickr API credentials
export FLICKR_API_KEY="your-key"
export FLICKR_API_SECRET="your-secret"

# Download images
python flickr_retrieval.py

# Process images
python filter_segmentation.py

Structure

• 📓 flickr_retrieval.py # Image collection
• ✂️ filter_segmentation.py # Auto-cropping
• ⚙️ create_env.sh # Environment setup

Note: Requires Flickr API access. Apply here.