This week, I made several adjustments to priorities before the end of semester. Firstly, James was making good progress on the implementation of FSRCNN-s, which meant that getting weights for the model was integral for our final demo and deliverable. Taking into account the potential worst-case scenario, I did research on publicly available weights for our CNN model, and did comparison between the dataset they used to see if they would be suitable, in the possible event that the training for our new model could not be done in time. After talking with the team, I reevaluated our priorities realized that finishing and printing our CAD model would have to be put on the backburner – figuring out hyperparameters and looking through possible solutions with James was much more impertinent, in order to meet our deliverables by the end of the semester.
In terms of the final demo, I voiced several ideas on the structure of how we could present, including a multi-monitor setup, as well as interaction with the listeners, such as allowing them to rate which video they thought was the better one, as well as prompting them to give a subjective score, etc.
I made the final presentation and also prepared to deliver it. In doing so, I also worked on the final report, detailing a lot on our testing and metrics on our initial model, even though we’ve moved on from that one, as to fully document our developmental process.
In terms of the final video, I discussed with my team on what approaches we could take, and since none of us really had any video-editing experience, we decided to prepare in advance. I looked at videos from previous Capstone courses, specifically the winners of last semester, as I thought their video was correctly paced and well-edited.
(This report was made late, and was added on December 12th.)