Shubhi’s Status Report for 2/10

This week, I was able to spend some time researching computer vision algorithms to figure out what options we had for programming the part of the system that detects the number of objects in a cart. From my research, I found that OpenCV has multiple builtin algorithms for object tracking which seem promising for our use case, and also given the ease of usability and integration with the rest of the system. We also presented our proposal presentation this week, which I spent some time working on as well. Given the feedback we received from our presentation, I am considering other options other than a CV algorithm to analyze the carts, but that is something I plan on discussing with my team early next week so we can switch gears if we decide to.