Weekly Report 4

Xinyu Zhao: What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours). I tried the C930e from Logitech, the resolution is good Read more…

Weekly Report 3

Tianhan Hu: This week, I continued working on hand gesture detection. Our current implementation on hand gesture detection relies on extracting contour of hand on its first step. To achieve that, we are using thresholding with fixed values. As pointed out by Professor Marios in the design review presentation, thresholding Read more…

Weekly Report 2

Tianhan Hu: This week I continued to work on hand-button interaction detection part of our project. After going through some research papers, I found that it is really hard to distinguish whether a hand is held above the table or is pressing on the table. I discussed the issue with Read more…

Weekly Report 1

Tianhan Hu: This week I spent most time self-learning OpenCV with Python3 since computer vision would be the core part of our project. I installed OpenCV in a virtual environment and walked through the following tutorial: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/07/19/opencv-tutorial-a-guideto-learn-opencv/ After that, I walked through methods described in this page for tutorial in Read more…