Team Status Update for 10/24/2020

This week was midterm week for most of us so not much work has been completed this week. There have been some difficulties in the development of the web app that pertain to having a live feed of the camera capture that have setback that portion of the project a bit. Another concern we are having is the tradeoff between writing computer vision algorithms such as hand detection and using existing modules and their functions. We are concerned that if we write most of the functionality from scratch, our implementation won’t beat the existing optimized module functions and cause our projects performance to suffer, such as increasing the response time beyond the real time constraints. A quick look at our Design report feedback shows that we still need to structure our design better and it seems like we need to do some thinking about our current approach to Machine Learning as currently our approach contains a lot of work to be done. We also need to be clear about what portions of the project are facts from experiment or hypothesis to validate. To mitigate risks we need to more deliberate with how we work on the project and we probably need to come together more to combine our individual components. Our next steps should be to take our Design report feedback to heart and refine it. As well as trying to get the project back on schedule.