The team has been working hard to finish collecting our new dataset and further improve our two pin classification approaches. We plan to have the new dataset completed by the weekend. So far, we have 11 out of 15 plugs in a temporary dataset which has been used for preliminary testing. We have noticed sizeable improvements in performance in the deep learning plug and pin classifiers with this new dataset. Along with the new dataset, the deep learning models can now be configured to take additional inputs other than images. There is opportunity to take information from the feature extraction portion and provide it as new inputs to the deep neural networks.

For the feature extraction approach for pin classification, most work has been completed. Fine-tuning will continue along with fixing small issues.