Welcome to Earlham CS Senior Capstone Experience.

I have been gathering more data to find the optimal number of keyframes for various types of videos.  The videos with larger file sizes take a long time to compress.

I have decided to implement the AIML, Python, MySQL architecture and have been looking at setting up an environment to run them all.

Couldn’t get OpenCV to install properly on my laptop so I asked the CS admins to create a cluster account for me. By sshing to the cluster I will be able to use OpenCV. Tomorrow I expect to get the … Read More

After a good amount of online searching and experimentation, I finally got my Makefile to compile a working program. There is no audio output for my main program yet, but I am going to try out a different beat detection … Read More

Heading to home depot to talk to someone knows about voltage splitters or where else to measure voltage from.  Heres hoping someone knows something.

Just wrapping the wires around the cord, doesn’t work, neither does attaching the wires to the prongs of the plug.  I am thinking about going to an electrician or home depot to find someone who knows where to measure the … Read More

With measuring voltage figured out, i have moved on to determining where to attach the wires to measure the voltage.

work on voltage monitoring, found 2 ways to determine voltage, the first measures 0-5V, the second measures higher voltages using voltage dividers and multiple resistors.

I don’t know what took me so long to do it, but I finally installed PortAudio so that I can actually use it in my prototype program. To make sure it works, I ran one of the example programs, “paex_sine”, … Read More

Accomplished since 10/28 post: Completed the IRB form, pending approval by Charlie (most likely it will need revised but could be submitted by class on Wednesday) Drew a design of the minimal version of the program, more comprehensive design pending … Read More

I worked on an architecture for my program which is based on AIML with Python and MySQL in the backend.

I have been looking at different ways to integrate a database into AIML

I’m still trying to get the libraries for OpenCV installed in order to compile facedetect.cpp.

Continuing to gather data to evaluate ffmpeg.

Continuing to work on gathering data for the speeds and compression ratios of ffmpeg.

Currently still trying to compile the OpenCV facedetect.cpp file from the samples directory. I keep getting an error saying it cannot locate the libraries in the OpenCV.pc file. I am trying to get this resolved as soon as possible so … Read More