The team did a great job! Here’s video of our system demonstration in the lab: http://vimeo.com/38991872

Second week is the last week of IP DOSSEE.

Plan: Release stable version which we can present on Friday, which any of you can pull from git, compile and use without any problems.

Actual progress: We split our team in few groups so we can fix bugs, improve recognition and implement pin pong game till week end by working in parallel.
We have found adaptive threshold method to improve contour recognition when expecting lack of illumination and successfully implemented it. Found few memory leaks, GUI form glitches and successfully fixed them.
We also created our project “candy”, by successfully implementing a ping pong game for two people with score system.

P.S.
Few minutes ago we had our demo, people were having fun playing with our application.
Right now we all are sitting in “Audio Max” hall listening to the rest of presentations.
It was nice two weeks which we spent together. For us, team leaders, it was a big pleasure to work with such a beautiful team !!!

Day 1.

Met the team for the first time.

Plan: Discuss ideas about logic implementation and cube recognition algorithm with team. Install required software, configure it, split in teams.

Actual progress: Tried to distribute prepared virtualbox HDD image, unfortunately it won’t work on PCs except the one it was created on. Fortunately we had plan B, which was using preinstalled on university PCs ubuntu 10.04, unfortunately it was not installed. Prepared by us boot able ubutu on usb stick won’t boot due to PCs has no option to boot from usb. Fortunately one of our team mates started to install ubuntu 10.04 on VMware so it could distribute it to others. After few hours VMware image was ready, image included ubuntu 10.04, eclipse. Team started to copy VMware images and started to install OpenCV and QT frameworks.

Team was split into pairs of two persons, so they can start development using pair programming approach, which would be best choice for us.

Day 2.

Plan: Finish software installation, start development.

Actual progress: After team members have installed required software, they were expecting problems compiling cloned from github project. Problems with include paths appeared. Fortunately teams were split in pairs of two persons so they could use single PC to start developing, while we (team leaders) were searching for problems solution on other PCs. At the end of the day, there were still problems with few PCs, but development progress started.

Day 3.

Plan: Fix problems left, continue development.

Actual progress: All the teams have done a lot. GUI part implemented user friendly interface and started to work on configuration saving and restoring. “Color Palette Logic Module” team chose algorithm, discussed it and partially implemented. “Binary Math Logic Module” team had long discussion with Anatoly which was helping them to decide which algorithm might suit their needs. Team described algorithm on a paper before coding it. Team responsible for “Recognition Module” started to analyze our “home made” recognition algorithm, so they coukd improve it and implement.

Almost all problems with project compilation were solved, few which left could be fixed compiling project from command line using customized “makefile”.

Day 4.

Plan: Finish coding GUI, Color Palette and Recognition parts, start testing. Combine modules together.

Actual progress: GUI part implemented module configuration save and restore, continued module testing. “Color Palette Module” development finished, testing started. Recognition part started to recognize cubes, left to recognize inner contours. “Binary Math Module” coding started.

Started to combine modules together.

Day 5.

Plan: Completely combine modules together. Finish “Color Palette Module” testing.

Students from technical college must come, ask them to create cubes and develop simple logic so they can see real example. Finish “Binary Math Module” development.

Actual progress: Students from college have made few cubes, implemented logic to draw image when cube found and successfully tested it.

“Binary Math Module” implemented “OR”, “AND” and “SUM” operations on binary numbers, few operations to implement left, testing required. Recognition module team faced problems implementing recognition of inner contours, partially solved them. Teams which were developing GUI and “Color Palette” modules started to combine all modules together so they can test “Color Palette” implementation.