This week The team got together and got the entire pipeline put together. We can now read camera input modify it in software and allow other applications to use that software camera as an input. We have it working on Arch Linux and Linux Mint (Which as a Fork of Ubuntu). Jenny is using Ubuntu 20.04 and just got it up and running this week and will be setting her stuff up this week as well. On my own front I began to find a more sophisticated way of doing background subtraction for the purpose of hand detection. So far in my research I found a good paper which also pointed to other papers which give a survey of many other methods that are used. Along with that I started looking at media pipe which seems to be even more ideal for what we want to do. Unfortunately this week I have not been able to get these new methods tested at yet due to assignments being due.
Paper that gives a survey of background subtraction methods. https://ipsjcva.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41074-017-0036-1