User study Flask app

A Flask app for a user study where the user is asked to choose between two images. The images should be in the /pic/background/ and /pic/distorted/ folders.

First set up a virtual environment and install the required packages:

conda create -n user_study python
conda activate user_study
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the app locally:

python main.py

To deploy on Google Cloud App Engine:

1. Create a MySQL database on Google Cloud SQL to store the results and fill-in the details in main.py and app.yaml.
2. Follow the tutorial here to deploy the flask app to Google Cloud.