Olivia’s Status Report For 2/12

After our proposal presentation, the team and I were feeling unsure about our project idea. So, I set up a meeting with Professor Kim and the other group members to discuss. We came to an agreement on a more innovative solution that focuses on head and eye tracking rather than hand tracking. Since then, I have been researching new computer vision methods for tracking head and eye movement and re-establishing use-case requirements. Luckily, Media Pipe (which I was originally using for hand tracking) has facial detection which can detect 3D face landmarks in real-time. I then researched how to estimate head rotation based on the movement of face landmarks. I also spent time thinking about more features we can add to our solution after our MVP is finished. Over the next week, I plan to gain a more solid understanding of the head and eye tracking implementation and relay that new knowledge in the Design Presentation. Even though our solution has changed, I still feel on track with deliverables and such related to the computer vision aspects.