For our Taichine project this week, we finished all planned functionalities in our MVP and were mostly focused on polishing the final details of the projection prior to the testing and verification phase.
During Monday and Wednesday meetings, the team focused on testing on the front end along with demos of the project to faculty members. In the process, bugs were found throughout the test when group members were trying out our final product.
Shiheng and Ray worked on the backend and integration scripts about cases where users were not correctly positioned in frame and when nobody is detected in the camera. Previous solutions were not comprehensive to users and more for the purpose of debugging, which now have been replaced by voice instructions and redrawing of the skeleton to guide users to improve their current posture. Shiheng also worked on implementing voice instructions and fixed failures where the pygame module will cause unintended termination of the training. Ray improved UI elements on the frontend and changed scaling algorithms for better showcase of skeletons.
Hongzhe (Eric) worked on cropping and regeneration of the openpose data on the Taichi pose pictures to accommodate the frontend changes of picture frame, during which he also helped figuring out the bugs encountered on the frontend on skeleton drawing for the reference pose and user input. Eric also suggested that logic improvements on the backend to Shiheng about pose priority, where fixes were implemented upon.
Jerry worked more on the custom pose implementation side and focused on file storage structures for sequencing and stepping through the images for prerecorded poses. Now both pipelines follow similar naming trends and users are more easily directed to figure out where the custom poses are stored. Also, some button logics were revised on the frontend by Jerry to improve performance of the application and remove redundancy.
We will focus on testing, verification, and validation of our project for the weekend and for the week prior to final demo. In addition, we will work simultaneously on other scheduled matters including slides, posters, and videos to accommodate for more flexibility during the final week.