This week we presented our final design report and discussed the culmination of our work for the past two semesters. Overall, the presentation went quite well. Though our liaison was unable to attend, we believe that we were able to… Read More

Throughout the past several weeks, each of us have been working on a different approach to refining the algorithm, so this week we focused on integrating these different approaches into one final pipeline.   Overall, our final estimates for tilt… Read More

One of the primary concerns we have had as we inspect and attempt to improve our initial results is that for many frames, our keypoint detection algorithm isn’t able to detect too many keypoints. This creates problems because any inaccuracy… Read More

As be approach the final weeks of the project, we’re getting initial results and need to begin diagnosing how we can improve them. The first step in this is plotting where our algorithm is calculating the camera to be at… Read More

Following up on our plans from week 7 about using a 3D printed model of a tower in order to validate our results, we are glad to report that the model has been printed, and the process for setting up… Read More

This week, we’re showing off the improvements we made to our object tracking algorithm. If you’ll recall, before, we encountered issues of it reclassifying antennas a lot, resulting in several IDs for the same antenna. Though this is something that… Read More

Having completed camera calibration last week, we can now begin applying those results to our angle calculation, to hopefully see more accurate results. Shown above are a pair of images at two different steps in the angle calculation pipeline. Though… Read More

Last week, we received video from Verizon for calibration. This video showed a checkerboard pattern shown below. Using this video, we can use software to detect the corners, then knowing that the corners should form straight lines with each other,… Read More

This week, we did our second qualitative review board presentation. The biggest takeaway was ensuring that we have a good way to test and validate our process, in order to both ensure it works, and determine where any issues may… Read More

This week, we’ve made quite a bit of progress in integrating our object detection and 3D tagging algorithm with our angle calculation feature. Our project relies on tracking individual antennas, and assigning points as belonging to one antenna or another,… Read More

An additional part of our project is a hardware component, running our object detection model on a Jetson Nano in real time so that the drone operators can tell if the video they’re collecting is working well with the model,… Read More

This week, we made significant progress in our object detection and object tracking algorithms On object detection, with a batch of annotations on a new tower completed, we were able to run our algorithm on a new tower with different… Read More

This week, we continued our work on the angle calculations, along with improving our object detection algorithm and making progress on the 3D tagging. In the angle calculation algorithm, the next step after finding and matching key points is to… Read More

This week, we’ve made pretty significant progress on our angle calculation algorithm. This algorithm relies on a process called Structure from Motion (SfM). SfM relies on two separate perspectives of the same object, and by extracting key points of the… Read More

With the break to reflect on the first semester, deciding what went well and what could be improved, we’re ready to start the spring semester off strong with roles defined and members prepared to begin work on our different components… Read More