This week, in our initial meeting with Prof. Savvides and our TA Uzair, we were recommended to implement FarmFresh MVP with bananas as they rot quite quickly and noticeably. Since our FarmFresh design as of now plans to use a rotating plate for fruits to be placed on, I researched ways to hold up a banana. I found a banana holder that could fit our needs in the market, but we may have to design a transparent or thinner version of this. Alternatively, there are hammocks or hangers for bananas that can also hold a single banana. For now, we plan to just manually take top-view pictures but different angles will be important later on. We are on schedule as of now. For next week, I plan to research ML models, that will work well with recognizing fruits. Specifically, I will look into Image Segmentation and try to implement a simple program that can detect bananas in Google images of them.
