Journal
Week 1
05/31/2013 18:00
To begin week 1 I arrived on campus and got settled in. I made sure to know where the building was before I had to be there, so I would not be late. I met my mentor, Professor Leilah Lyons, and she explained to me the entire EcoCollage project that I would be apart of. (Explained on...
Week 2
06/07/2013 18:00
Beginning week 2 I met a new partner who attends UIC and is interested in being a part of the EcoCollage. Considering the now known fact that the other attendant is no longer able to make it to the project, his assistance will be much appreciated. Although Leilah is out of the office often she was...
Week 3
06/14/2013 18:00
During week three I jumped into the coding aspect of the internship. The goal was to create a program that would show the threshold of a picture and be able to find green objects. It took about two to three days to figure this out and with help from my co-volunteer we got a lot more work...
Week 4
06/21/2013 18:00
During this week Hamlet and I continued to work on grabbing the position of the threshold object whenever a specific button was pressed. We first had to figure out how to track the object that was displayed. Once we figured that out it was simple to capture the positioning at the press of a button....
Week 5
06/28/2013 18:00
During this week we began to test the shapes with the overhead camera in the LSRI lab. We feel as if the overhead camera gives a better demonstration and also allows us to have a more accurate reading as to how far the camera must be from the objects to get an accurate reading. We soon began...
Week 6
07/05/2013 18:00
To begin the 6th week we started to combine the threshold code with the SURF code more. The code is now able to search for a specific color and image that is given to it. We have the program working well with a few bugs where it crashes every so often. Our main goal is to move the equipment...
Week 7
07/12/2013 18:00
This week began off with a meeting with Professor Lyons. We talked about all that I had been learning, what troubles I was having, and what all still needed to get done. I told her that I was still a little iffy on asking questions, but she said as I am learning that I need to ask many questions...
Week 8
07/19/2013 18:00
To begin Monday off it was a very bumpy start. Coming off of Friday when Tia had e-mailed me stating we had fixed this problem before and I should've been able to fix it myself, clearly showing she was upset that I hadn't gotten any work done due to this issue. In her e-mail she stated that she...
Week 9
07/26/2013 18:00
To start the week off I began with more gesture transcription all of Monday.
On Tuesday, Tia and I met up in the LSRI lab to finish up finding the color codes for thresholding without the projector. It took a while for some of the colors because they were very close to each other such as, red and...
Week 10
08/02/2013 18:00
To begin Monday off there was a meeting with Leilah, Emily, Brian, Matt, Dean, and Chandan to discuss what had been come up with so far. The pieces of the board were the main topic of discussion. How well they could be seen, how appeasing to the eye they were, could they be read on the board, and...
Final Report
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