This week I worked on practising for my proposal presentation and preparing for questions. I also started looking more into the CV, and breaking it down into steps. The first step is edge detection and detecting the chessboard grid, which is what I am now focusing on. I also looked into cameras we could use for both Arduino and Rpi, and placed orders. I tried to find a chess board that would be similar enough to our chessboard to use while it is being built. I met with my teammates to discuss our different components and finalise them.
Team status report for 09/18
This week we worked with course staff to finalise our project. We met with Prof. Yu and Funmbi on Monday and Wednesday to help narrow down the scope of our project. Earlier we had planned to develop the game playing AI ourselves, but it was decided that is too complex. So, we decided to use existing AI for the game.
We also got feedback on how to make sure that the project still remains unique and useful. This required us to make sure that the user actually gains something by using our board, and it’s not the same as using a regular Chess App.
We met three times during the week to iterate upon our ideas. We also worked on dividing up the project into chunks that could be handled independently. Then, we assigned tasks based off of our strengths. We also worked together on our proposal presentation slides.
Anoushka’s status report for 09/18
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.