This week I worked on finalising details of our project. I met with my teammates, Funmbi and Professor Yu. We discussed ways to narrow the scope of our project because our original plan covered too many areas. We decided to not create our own chess playing AI, and instead focus on Computer Vision, Signals and circuits. I will be working mainly on the Computer Vision side of the project, i.e. detecting the player’s moves on the chess board using timestamped images of it. I worked on dividing this task into sub-deliverables in the Gantt chart. I also began working on researching existing algorithms for chess piece detection and checking if they had anything in common with our use case. I didn’t find anything substantially similar, and am planning to begin implementing my own algorithm starting this week.
Additionally, I set up the WordPress site for the project. I also spent some time practicing for the proposal presentation on Monday.