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Team Status Report for 2/27

This week…

  • Refreshed code for project, e.i. opencv and raspberry pi
  • Prepared for the proposal project
  • Presented the proposal project
  • Reached out to out interviewee
  • Took photos of intersection for data set
  • organized photos for dataset

Status…

  • On time but need to order components next week

Changes to the system

  • None at the moment

Current risks and mitigations

  • if there should be an enable button for our device
  • distractions from other attributes of the intersection
  • how all our devices will fit in the headband
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Jeanette’s Update for 2/27

This is week….

  • prepared our design presentation
  • presented our design presentation
  • reached out to our interviewee
  • reviewed raspberry pi code examples

Status…

  • On time

Next week…

  • look more extensively at code examples
  • order the components
  • interview a visually impaired person
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Shayan’s Status Report for 2/27

Progress Made

My main focus this week was with data collection. I continued to amass photo datasets from online as well as take photos of my own. I made sure to visit a variety of intersections with just traffic lights (including Ellsworth/Morewood, Ellsworth/Amberson, Ellsworth/Aiken, Fifth/Amberson, Fifth/Wilkins). We had some rare sunny weather, so I seized the opportunity to snap some pics then. I also got pics during the normal Pittsburgh overcast, in some light rain, and at night. I took photos at various angles and approaches, as well as with different light stages.
Link to photos so far

Progress

On Schedule! 🙂

Deliverables for Next Week
  • Can always get more photos with more varied weather. (Heavier rain in the forecast!)
  • Set up CV architecture and reacquaint myself with OpenCV
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Yasaswini’s Status Report for 2/27

Completed Items for this week:

  • Researched and found a few OpenCV examples
  • Brushed up on OpenCV basics and learned how to handle images in that environment
  • Played around with sample images in order to upload them

To complete next week:

  • Upload the actual images of the Morewood/Elsworth intersection taken
  • Process the images in OpenCV
  • Meet with the visually impaired individual along with the rest of the group
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Team Status Report for 2/20

Changes to the System:
  • We decided to change our product into a headband, which can be worn by the user, since that way the cameras will be positioned optimally. Also since a headband has the full circumference, we can easily place the processor in the back too.
  • While we do have datasets of traffic lights to train on, we decided to go with real live pictures of the Morewood/Elsworth Intersection (“ElMo”) as our main form
Current Risks and Mitigation: 
  • Making sure that the Raspberry Pi can stay powered portably for a lengthy duration and that it doesn’t get too heated. Since this is going on the user’s head, it’s important to develop some sort of barrier between the system and their head, such as padding.
  • Our current design definitely might need to be updated once the parts come in. While we have estimated as closely as possible with the sizes of the various parts online, it might be a different picture putting them together
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Jeanette’s Status report for 2/20

This week’s completed items:

  • Worked on gantt chart for proposal presentation
  • Finished powerpoint for proposal presentation
  • Researched tools and materials to use toward the project
  • Updated Professor Sullivan and Ramshi about project works

Next week’s goals:

  • Reach out to visually impaired people and schedule interview
  • Order critical componentsRefresh Raspberry pi knowledge
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Yasaswini’s Status Report for 2/20

Completed Items for this week: 

  • Worked on the project proposal slides
  • Found datasets of traffic lights and intersections that could be used
  • Came up with a few of the requirements
    • Percent accuracy was found by looking at other similar projects/thesis’ online
    • Had to find how to power the raspberry pi portably

It was all on schedule this week and next week’s tasks include:

  • Find examples of OpenCV uses and set up environment to upload data set
  • Help take pictures of the Morewood/Elsworth Intersection
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Shayan’s Status Report for 2/20

This week, I did the following:
  • Project Proposal refinement and Scoping
    • Worked with the Team as well as Dr. Sullivan and Rashmi to continue to narrow the scope of our MVP, starting from a short list of possible features to deciding on telling the user when to cross at a specific “ElMo” type intersection
  • Literature Review / Data Collection
    • Helped identify traffic datasets for CV
      • API with Google Street View for images of specific intersection
      • Microsoft et. al. COCO dataset with tagged photos of traffic lights
  • Prep work for circuitry assembly
    • Selection of speaker for user interface
Perceived Team Progress:

On Track 🙂

Deliverables next week:
  • Data Collection
    • Collect pictures of “ElMo” intersections (incl. Ellsworth/Morewood, Ellsworth/Amberson, Fifth/Amberson) at various angles/vantage points, lighting conditions, weather conditions
    • Tagging the traffic lights in said photos
  • Project Requirements
    • Finalize, through literature review and similar past projects, the quantitative benchmarks that are required by the user (i.e. data rate, power consumption, accuracy)
  • Device Components
    • Finalize parts list with team and order