Adriana’s Status Report for 03/06

This week, I was able to further look into how we are going to be implementing our software component of our project. Specifically, the face detection / eye tracking algorithm using openCV and DNN. I was able to get install the necessary modules and have some of the openCV’s eye detection algorithms work on my local computer. I also worked on the design review presentation in which I will be delivering next week. The progress I have made is on schedule. Additionally, we ordered and received our parts for the project. This means that we can begin integrating the software module that we will need into our board and start our preliminary code writing next week. For next week, we hope to have tested and written some code on our board in order to have learned how to use it.

 

Evann’s Status Report for 3/6

This week, I worked on setting up a development environment for developing for the Jetson Xavier NX board. Our team has decided to move forward with Ubuntu as our OS as the Jetson Xavier has Ubuntu based software packages optimized specifically for the board that we want to use. Additionally, I worked with the rest of my team to create a Design Review slide deck. I used google doc’s drawing feature to create simple, straightforward block diagrams of the hardware system and the calibration process. Finally, I received some of the hardware that we requested and have been exploring how to set everything up.