Week 5

During this week we began to test the shapes with the overhead camera in the LSRI lab. We feel as if the overhead camera gives a better demonstration and also allows us to have a more accurate reading as to how far the camera must be from the objects to get an accurate reading. We soon began working with the SURF coding more so that the program would run better. We wanted the program to be able to grab the object it detected and set it in a different window after clicking a specified button. It took a while, but we finally got the piece working properly. Once we press a button it now takes the image that it is searching for and finds images related to it and sets them off in separate windows. Our new goal is for it to be able to properly select the images and the main features for each shape.

We had a meeting with Matt, our designer and he showed us different materials that would be possible to use in the project. There were wooden pieces from different cuts of wood, such as birch and butterwood. These shapes all varied in sizes as well, from ¾ of an inch to 1¼ inch. This was to test how easily human hands could pick them up and how visible they were to the computer. Once we finished with the meeting we headed back to the ERF lab to finish up a little more coding, and then I began to transcribe more videos.