This week, I worked on debugging the camera with Eric and verifying the functionality of everything else. We tried many troubleshooting methods on both our camera module 3 and the backup arducam camera. However, no matter what we did we could not get the camera module 3 to detect and take pictures. The backup camera does detect, but would only take extremely blurry pictures of weird colors, such as blue and pink despite facing a white wall. Ultimately, we decided to move forward with a usb webcam Tzen-Chuen already had for demos. Outside the camera, mostly everything else was tested to see if it ran smoothly. The whole pipeline from image capture (simulated with just a downloaded image file on the raspberry pi) to being verified as a match was tested and worked within timing requirements. In addition, I fixed some bugs in our website such as images not displaying in fullscreen properly. The link is the same as the previous week.
Outside of the camera issues, my progress has been on schedule. Since we don’t think putting the camera into our pipeline is much of an issue once we have a working one, we don’t expect this to delay much. By next week, I hope to add a working camera to our pipeline and then work on the sagemaker implementation with Eric.