Team Status Report for 3/16/24

Risks:

• Video streaming is too slow. Switching to using a python library, hopefully the RPi Zero’s can handle it.
• Found online image dataset of produce that isn’t labeled for detection, just classification. Considering if switching to classification may be better for finishing on time.

Changes:

• Decided to scan items outside of the refrigerator.
  • Will still be close to the opening of the refrigerator door to use feature tracking
  • Camera will point down so that background will not be cluttered
  • might get a tablet to mount on the front of the refrigerator so that user can see video feedback
  • idle mode of the camera will be determined by a circuit that either uses a connection when the door is closed or a photodiode to detect light inside of the refrigerator

Progress:

• Received the KV260. However, power supply wasn’t included so setup/testing has been delayed.
• Front end of app almost complete
• Video stream proof of concept showed promise, however it was bottlenecked by image processing.
• Sous-Chef databases locally created, Python connector works and can perform CRUD operations.