Senior Design Fall 2002 - Spring 2003 ECE Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

EE/CpE 416/424
2002 Fall - 2002 Spring
WEEKLY STATUS REPORTS

Group No: 10

Report Title: Motion Track / Object Recognition

Group Leader: Hana Choi

Advisor: Hang Man

Project Status as of April 27th 2003

Finished writing program for motion tracking Poster presentation finished Minor debugging left for presentation Hours Worked: 45

Project Status as of April 21th 2003

Wrote a program that will capture the image and determine whether there is a moving object within the camera's viewing area Wrote a pan/tilt interface program but still improving on this Hours Worked: 40

Project Status as of April 13th 2003

Worked on capturing images in Visual Basic but give up because it was too slow and had problems trying to use pointers Started working on capturing images and taking still shots in Visual C++ Continued working on image processing Hours Worked: 35

Project Status as of April 7th 2003

Began work on capturing image and taking snapshots Elementary image processing performed on snapshots Program written in Visual Basic, but may be converted to Visual C++ due to speed issues. For now, both languages (VB/VC++) are being developed concurrently to check out our different options. Hours Worked: 20

Project Status as of March 30th 2003

Got a capture card with an USB connection Wrote a program that captures video streams Hours Worked: 30

Project Status as of March 24th 2003

Worked on edge detection and camera interface program Hours Worked: 20

Project Status as of March 16th 2003

Worked on Edge detection program Worked on Interim report Hours Worked: 10

Project Status as of March 3rd 2003

Updated the website Continued to work on pan/tilt interface Started working on edge detection algorithm Hours Worked: 35

Project Status as of February 24th 2003

Continued work on the pan/tilt interface program. We are still looking for a capture card but we have one that we are using temperately. Hours Worked: 20

Project Status as of February 16th 2003

Met with Prof. Man to discuss camera to be used on our project and agreed on Sony EVI-D30. We are still searching for a capture card. We bought a camera, pan/tilt device. Tested them to make sure they work. Wrote a basic program to control the pan/tilt device. Hours Worked: 30

Project Status as of February 9th 2003

Met with Prof. Hong Man to decide on the camera to use (Sony EVI-D30) and currently we are trying to purchase it on www.ebay.com for price reasons. Looking for and bidding on auctions for the camera. Hours Worked: 20

Project Status as of February 3th 2003

Inquired about budgeting. Our next step is to secure a camera and pan/tilt device. Started basic tracking algorithm. Hours Worked: 15

Project Status as of December 9th 2003

Established regular group meeting time Reviewed what we did last semester Discussed about budget and what we can start before buying the equipment Hours Worked: 15