{"id":120,"date":"2025-02-23T02:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/?p=120"},"modified":"2025-02-23T02:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T02:35:32","slug":"maddie-status-report-2-16-2-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/2025\/02\/23\/maddie-status-report-2-16-2-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie Status Report (2\/16 \u2013 2\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The start of my week was focused on preparing to present our design review, which happened Monday and (I think) went well! Since then I have been pretty sick, but was able to \u2013 thanks to a cocktail of basically every over-the-counter cold medicine known to man \u2013 make some progress on the image recombination algorithm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I decided to start working with OpenCV, as it is more familiar to me and seems to be more well-documented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve gotten some preliminary code working which is able to recombine images that I\u2019ve broken up manually. I began with simple images, but then started testing with coral reef pictures, and was able to stitch them together successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I went on to try and break images up both the vertical and horizontal directions, which failed miserably but brought up some good things for me to think about. Specifically, I realized that OpenCV only seems to support stitching together panoramic images. This doesn\u2019t mean that we won\u2019t be able to create a grid of n x m images, but we will have to be more deliberate about how the initial images are taken and ordered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, when trying to stitch together 4 images, which were supposed to make up a 2&#215;2 grid, I was given a success exit status from OpenCV, even though the resultant image was wildly incorrect. This brings to mind the need to validate resultant images more accurately than relying on exit codes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going into next week, I plan do the following::<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Develop and implement an algorithm that, given a folder of particularly named images, is able to recombine an n x m image.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Implement code which more quickly can split up existing images into a folder of test images to combine, since generating tests manually is quite time consuming (I\u2019ve developed the algorithm for this, but need to actually write the code)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Run tests to specifically determine how much overlap feature is necessary for success<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Think about (but not implement yet) a better way to validate resultant images<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This will be more necessary once we\u2019re combining images taken by our robot, but for now we can just do pixel comparison to the original<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Investigate the impact of recombination (if any) to image quality<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Likely not for next week, but another future consideration) Learn how to edit image metadata to include any necessary data\/ordering information needed for recombination later<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going into next week, I am a bit ahead of schedule. This week\u2019s work introduced a minor roadblock in that we won\u2019t be able to automatically recombine images in 2 directions, however, because of my success with OpenCV (and not having to pivot libraries), I believe that I\u2019ll be able to still be on schedule at the end of next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below is an image of a coral reef which has been split up for recombination testing. Each green dot is a key point, which allows for overlap detection.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-122\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2025\/02\/status_3_pic1-1-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2025\/02\/status_3_pic1-1-300x159.png 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2025\/02\/status_3_pic1-1-768x408.png 768w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2025\/02\/status_3_pic1-1-1024x543.png 1024w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2025\/02\/status_3_pic1-1-760x400.png 760w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamc6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2025\/02\/status_3_pic1-1.png 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of my week was focused on preparing to present our design review, which happened Monday and (I think) went well! 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