Tag: status report

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

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