Research

Another week has flown by and the Fantastic Five have been hard at work researching viable methods to generate AI images. We found two potential ways we could accomplish the goal: using either OpenAI’s API or creating our own model from scratch and using stable diffusion. We played around with stable diffusion and created some example images and found it to be straightforward when using an already existing model.

After talking to our liaison, it looks like using stable diffusion would be the preferable method, but that also means training our own model using data that we preprocess and prepare. We have our work cut out for us, but we are excited to learn more about training our own AI model!

Preparation

This week, we also finished writing our design specifications and came up with our customer needs. With that finished, we are planning on polishing it to present it to our sponsor Fanatics. We are also preparing a road map for the rest of the semester. This will allow us to stay organized and on track with our project. Eventually, we hope to also expand the roadmap to encompass the spring semester as well. Next week, we will start working on the preliminary design ideas.