Team Status Report for 3/23

Risk Identification and Mitigation Strategies
Primary Risk Concern: Our primary concern currently is the camera image acquisition rate. We did not expect to run into a problem where the camera is not able to stream images continuously, instead it happens at the frequency that a python function is called. Since this rate limits the amount of images we are able to acquire in a single period of time, we are not able to gather images that we may want for good classification.
Mitigation Measures:
We are currently trying to find alternative methods of acquiring images, such as a screen capture or photos being dumped to disk before we read off of it. These methods add latency, so we are also experimenting with multi-threading the main python function in hopes of getting better image acquisition performance. Another mitigation measure could be strengthening the OCR algorithm, though this is a last resort due to the nature of its complexity.
Project Design Updates
As of the current reporting period, there have been no modifications to the initial design of the project.
Schedule and Timeline
We are not on track with our timeline. The development for the OCR algorithm detecting expiration dates has been falling behind and we haven’t been able to integrate that portion of the scanner module yet.