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

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: