unrealcv

Why we included this project

Labeled image data is expensive to collect, which is why computer vision teams reach for UnrealCV: it turns Unreal Engine scenes into a controllable source of synthetic data. Once the plugin is in a UE project, you can pull ground-truth frames and depth maps out of virtual cameras, capture optical flow, move objects around, and call Blueprint functions from Python. A scene built once can then be rendered into thousands of consistently annotated images, covering tasks like segmentation or embodied perception without the usual hunt for scarce labeled data. People who have never opened the Unreal editor can still run a prebuilt game binary and stream data over the network, so the same tool covers quick experiments and full synthetic data pipelines.