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2001 Fall – 2002 Spring

WEEKLY STATUS REPORT

Group No. :____5______ Date: ___12/3/01_____ Report No. :______7______

Project Title: ITS-Image Tracking System: Volleyball Project

Group Leader: __Anthony Sanzari________ Advisor: __Hong Man____

Sponsor/Client: ______Stevens’s Athletic Department_______________________

Number of Hours Spent on Project by Group in Past Week: ____29____

Project on Schedule: YES ____________________ NO ______X__________

Weekly Status:

Our group is still slightly behind schedule. We have received requested trail software from a competitors software company and we are now in the stages of analyzing it for design considerations. We are researching its features, capabilities, and comparing our original design to this current product that is available from an Italian company. We are now in the stage of redefining our product, making design changes, and adding new features to our original design concept in order to create an overall “better” package. This part of our research is very important and time consuming but is necessary in order to finalize our project design.

We have decided to use Windvr as the software program that is going to be used to extract the streaming video from the digital video camera. Unfortunately the file header information we have been able to extract from the MPEG-1 format stream does not contain time reference information so we are meeting with our project advisor this week for further guidance and information on how to get time reference information from a digital stream. This is the last critical part of the design that we need to work out before we can go ahead with software development and implementation.

Our group is going to continue doing research and analysis, and further refine our project design and is planning a meeting for Thursday to finalize our project design plan and implementation strategy.