Study spots on campus are often hard to come by, you may search all of Tepper only to find there’s no space. By the time you’ve found a spot, 30 min may have passed that you could have spent working.
ScottySeat seeks to solve this issue by providing realtime updates on available study spots, and their locations. Building off of past study spot tracking projects, our project will run FPGA-accelerated computer vision algorithms on camera feed data to detect available study spots and communicate this data to the user via a web interface. The web interface will include a map of occupied/unoccupied spots along with overall occupancy of a given study space.
This project overall covers the areas of signals processing, hardware systems and software systems.