Milestones and Updates

  • Final Week (June 9th - June 13th)
    • Localized navigation system for both original and new places. Route distance/estimated time enabled for all places.
    • Improved UI design for input and display: the appearance and marker has been modified as well as views for adaption.
    • Enhanced OCR implementation: auto-Focus has been set to active all the time, resized detection blocks for easier separation between texts.


  • Week10 (June 2nd - June 8th)
    • Implemented auto-complete results.
    • Modified search database to integrate location information from both local and google map based sets.
    • More Locations: Buildings, Trailers, Parking lots.
    • Regular Expression: Fuzzy search for swap words, misspelled words. Hard-coded captions and abbreviation alternatives.


  • Week9 (May 26th - June 1st)
    • Finish the combination of the text recognition and map
    • Complete user interface: two activity based with three general views, i.e. the map, the configuration page and the camera.
    • Transfering text data between three activities
    • Add new location in the database
    • The search system now can suit for the new information


  • Updates: Issues and Challenges (May 25th)
    • When found the target, the place is highlighted with a marker; now the marker need to be destroyed when cancelled/finished searching.
    • The text recognition part and map marking part were achieved in separated projects, proper composition is necessary.


  • Week8 (May 21th - 25)
    • Searching bar prepared, potentially an auto-complete function can be added.
    • Polygon/Line layer functions achieved, the type of such polygon/polyline/marker determines the overall appearance.
    • Template Map Generated with sample places.


  • Week 7 (May 14th -18 )
    • Map and GPS locating
    • Test cases for text recognition


  • Week 6 (May 7th - 13th)
    • Project Demo and Website
    • Preliminary research on target APIs
  • Week 5 (May 1st - 6th)
    • Project Proposal settled

Demo May 25th.