Michael’s Status Report for 3/23/2024

Weekly Accomplishments

• Conducted research into libraries that allow for video streaming over wifi. Implemented a new stream that has improvement (6s/frame) over last week’s implementation (10s/frame), but still is quite slow. There’s one last hope with a library that uses FFMPEG that may allow for hardware acceleration, but I’m not hopeful. We may want to consider using a faster processor.
• Found new datasets for training YOLOv8 model. Training has started, and will be left running overnight.
• Ordered filament, polarizing lens, and power brick for the KV260.
• Worked with Sebastian to figure out what APIs need to be created for produce recognition.

Overall Progress

• Since we didn’t hear back from the AMD contact, I went ahead and ordered a power brick on Thursday. This pushes back figuring out how to accelerate the YOLOv8 model until next week.
• YOLOv8 model is training on my laptop, hopefully that will finish in a timely manner.
• Ordered filament and made some touches to the CAD model, however, more adjustments may need to be made if we change processors.

Next Week’s Goals

• Test YOLOv8 model on real world examples
• Figure out & implement YOLOv8 acceleratation on KV260.
• Figure out if a faster processor is needed
• Print case for scanner.