Week 8: Calibrating & Interfacing

Last week, we received video from Verizon for calibration. This video showed a checkerboard pattern shown below.

Frames from calibration video

Using this video, we can use software to detect the corners, then knowing that the corners should form straight lines with each other, we can calculate how much the lens is distorting the image. By performing this calculation several times across the entire video, we can then get the parameters describing the lens distortion, which we can then apply to our other videos.

We also created a draft of our basic interface for the project, which will allow users to upload their video and run it through the pipeline.

Upload interface draft, and output table with sample values

This allows us to better plan what information we can request from the user (particularly the number of antennas) and how we want to present our results. It also means once our pipeline is complete, it should simply be a matter of plugging it into the back end, which will aid in testing.

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