This week was quite challenging for me as I was sick for most of it. Last week, I was recovering from a bacterial infection, and unfortunately, I came down with the flu this week, which led to a visit to urgent care. Despite that, I was still able to contribute to the project, particularly in refining our approach to hand gesture recognition and pivoting my role to contribute more effectively.
Initially, I had misunderstood the gesture recognition task, thinking I needed to find and train a dataset myself. However, after further research, I realized that MediaPipe provides a pretrained model with 90% accuracy for gesture recognition, meaning I could directly integrate it without training a new model. This required a shift in my focus, and I pivoted to handling the networking aspect of the project to add complexity and depth to my contribution.
Beyond that, I have been actively involved in facilitating group meetings, translating our use case requirements into quantitative design requirements, and preparing for the design review presentation this week.
Given my health issues, my progress is slightly behind where I initially wanted to be, but I have taken steps to ensure that I am back on track. Since the gesture recognition aspect is now streamlined with MediaPipe, I have moved focus to the networking component, which is a new responsibility. I am catching up by working on setting up the foundational pieces of the social network feature in our web app.
Next week, I plan to make significant progress on the networking component of the project. Specifically, I aim to set up user authentication for the web app to allow users to create accounts, implement user profiles, which will include cooking levels, past recipe attempts, and preferences, and develop a basic social network feature, where users can add friends and view their cooking activities.