Milestones

• 8/30/18 Team Forms
• 9/3/18 Selected Gesture Vision as team project and team name
• 9/11/18 Began research into current methods of gesture recognition
• 10/11/18 Met with Professor Man about start of technical part of project, selected Professor Man as adviser
• 10/15/18 Installed Visual Studio, TensorFlow, and OpenCV on all member's computers
• 10/15/18 Started to use Xbox Kinect's depth sensing camera to see technological capabilities
• 10/18/18 Midterm Presentation
• 10/25/18 First filter applied to image
• 11/1/18 Began work into hand recognition using a color histogram
• 11/1/18 Began algorithm for background subtraction
• 11/8/18 First working background subtraction
• 11/15/18 Testing background subtraction with various backgrounds with varying amounts of noise
• 11/25/18 Applied dilation and erosion techniques to help distort the background
  • Causes latency issues
• 1/25/19 Returned to work after well deserved winter break
• 1/29/19 Found more resources on hand tracking programs that we may be able to use
  • Techniques learned: color histogram using hue, saturation, and value and separate variables
  • previously tried using only one variable
• Week of 2/4 Worked on code for hand recognition
• 2/12 Tested our Code with different control variables
• 2/21 Purchased a Green Screen in order to have the background as a control variable
• Week of 2/25 Tested our code with the green screen in order to refine our techniques
• 3/5 Created a Rough Draft of our Design Expo Poster, as well as our Pitch for the TG Pitch Competition
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Goals:

• By 12/1/18, we want to have completed our image filtering system
• By 2/1/19, we want a clearly defined schedule with clearly defined tasks for our group members
• By 3/1/19, we want to have gestures defined for our platform
• By 4/1/19, we want to have actions designated for our defined gestures
• By 5/1/19, we want to have completed our project and have a demo to present for the senior design expo

First background subtraction shown below: