This week I concentrated my efforts into the design presentation and report. I helped my team in designing slides and creating speaker notes. Likewise, I began writing the Introduction and ML documentation in our design report.
Regarding the progress in forwarding the design component of our project, I experimented with SVMs, GoogLeNet, and ChatGPT’s API. I was able to conduct tests on the weights and constants of the SVM formulation to best optimize the classification results. Likewise, I am still adding to a data set for training, testing, and validation data distinguishing canned foods and fruit. I plan to use 5-fold cross-validation to properly tune the hyper parameters (i.e. C and gamma). I also began looking at the GoogLeNet library and watching videos on how to use it. I seek to use function calls to distinguish between apples, bananas, and oranges. Finally, I tested ChatGPT4s ability to read labels which was surprisingly high and accurate. I plan to learn how to use the API to accept input and direct prompt responses in a formatted way to forward to the database.
There were no major complications or challenges this week in my progress. I wish I could have helped my teammates more in terms of designing the physical product and creating the box. I hope to get a more hands-on experience next week with the physical design process as I finalize the ML algorithms. Likewise, I hope to shift a lot of focus and effort into completing the design document for next week.