Week 2 tutorial

Today we had the second tutorial of the project.

Pro. Ralph talked about the importance about rules assignment in team working, and hoped that we could finish the allocation as clearly and quickly as possible. Then we talked about the problem we met right now, the camera still could not be detected by Matlab, which was the very basic step of the system. Unless we solve this problem, can the project move on. Pro. Ralph suggested us to work out how to analyze the video file first. After the problem is solved, we will be able to work on the in-time video information analysis.

At the very beginning, what we supposed was to tracking the specific items using camera and Arduino. As the time went by, we found that the project was not that simple. We rearranged the target to detect the red item, cause "specific item" was a huge range, if we could find the way to detect a red item, could we get the way to track items with specific characteristics. Then we limited it to detect the red item in horizontal direction, because we found two dimension tracking needed at least two control structures, which was quite complex. After this, we found there could be several red items in the video which we could not handle with, so we limited it to detect and track one red item with the whiteboard background and lastly we limited it to track one red item with whiteboard in a video file.It seems that we gave up many times, however the real reason for these actions was obey one good idea: we should build the project step by step, little by little. Maybe now we could not solve the complex problem, we are still working on it! We will set all what we abandoned temporarily as our next target and work for it. Hope we can finish the project successfully.