This week I began by continuing research into openCV while I awaited confirmation for the Jetson Nano working from Heather. I began the code development on my personal machine and had success in setting up and running some code for face detection.

On Wednesday I was able to actually borrow a Jetson TX2 from the capstone resources but ran into peripheral issues and had to wait for new peripherals to use for it. I again ran into some complications with the TX2 not having the most updated version of Jetpack (the library of modules compatible with the Jetson devices) and had to get access to a Linux machine. With the set up, I can now start doing some additional development on the TX2 itself rather than on a personal machine. There still is the additional issue that the TX2 cannot actually support the multiple cameras we got the use MIPI lanes. There is a breakout board solution available but that is very expensive so the current plan is to work with a single camera on the TX2 and potentially purchasing a Nano if it is absolutely necessary.

Looking at the next week, my main goal is to have a system that can access the frames in a camera feed and detect bodies or faces. I plan to have this system create a file of some sort that is readable by other programs. We also need to work on the design review presentation for next week.