Team Status Report for 2/10/24

Risks:

• Glare may be an issue when scanning smart labels. Software based to reduce glare have been shown to be computationally expensive.
  • Consider adding a polarized film over the lens to cut out the glare.
• Premade produce recognition solutions may not be trained for off-angled images.
  • If this does not work, we may pivot to having a plain background 
• Raspberry Pi Zeros may not have the compute strength to handle taking & streaming images
  • May upgrade from Pi Zero 2 W to a stronger Pi model (tradeoff: higher energy consumption)

Changes:

• No noteworthy design changes as of yet

Progress:

• QR Code detecting & reading using CV
• App design
• Github set up
• RPi Zero + Camera requested/ordered
• Preliminary research into DB, LLM, & Produce Recognition.