{"id":243,"date":"2025-04-19T12:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/?p=243"},"modified":"2025-04-19T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:53:44","slug":"cynthias-status-report-4-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/cynthias-status-report-4-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia&#8217;s Status Report 4\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Accomplishments this week:<\/strong><br \/>\nI retrained our object detection model by changing fine-tuning parameters to improve performance, such as increasing the starting learning rate for the learning rate scheduler and changes to lower memory usage. Additionally, I performed more complex data transformations to augment part of our dataset to work better in different indoor lightings by editing features like saturation, shadows, and rotations\/flips. Additionally, debugged with my teammates, helped Maya with woodworking, started testing with Kaya, and started on our final documentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reflection on schedule:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn schedule!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plans for next week:<\/strong><br \/>\nFinish testing and poster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New tools\/knowledge:<br \/>\n<\/strong>As I worked on our project, the main knowledge I had to learn was deep learning techniques to fine-tune and improve model performance and also integration knowledge with our peripherals. The learning strategies I used were applying knowledge from the deep learning class I am currently in and going through\u00a0forum posts such as stack overflow posts and YOLO support posts of similar problems to ours with fine-tuning. Additionally, I learned how to efficiently go through technologies&#8217; documentation and support websites to learn integration techniques for the technology I have not used before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accomplishments this week: I retrained our object detection model by changing fine-tuning parameters to improve performance, such as increasing the starting learning rate for the learning rate scheduler and changes to lower memory usage. Additionally, I performed more complex data transformations to augment part of our dataset to work better in different indoor lightings by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/cynthias-status-report-4-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cynthia&#8217;s Status Report 4\/19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teama7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}