Today marks the end of the second week with our team! We have been very busy this week working on the early stages of our project and finishing all of the IPPD on-boarding tasks. We are officially presenting our team logo, the Hermes Sandal, which represents the importance of speed to our project.

This week we began reviewing the literature surrounding computer vision, object detection, and other machine learning models in an effort to begin developing a strategy for our system. Our project has a huge research component due to the novelty of the problem. Clearly, we want our final product to be fast; the goal of this literature review is to learn approaches we can take to achieve this speed along with an acceptable accuracy. The product of this review is going to be a pitch from each team member as to what our end-to-end machine learning pipeline should look like – more on that next week!

For this upcoming week we will also be finalizing our scope of work, splitting the components of projects into “wants” and “needs”, and outlining quantifiable measures for these specifications. We will also be finalizing both our organizational roles, as well as our technical roles on the team. Speaking of technology, we are going to be completing HiperGator training this week so that we can gain access to that system.

We look forward to the week ahead and hope to have some more exciting updates for you next week!