Welcome to Earlham CS Senior Capstone Experience.

I finished out some final kinks and have a fully functional version now.

I mostly worked on my poster during this week. There were a number of small issues with my original poster created using LaTeX, which I could not fix without delving into a lot of code, so I recreated it using … Read More

I completed the second draft of my paper which required changes in the diagram, motivation for the project. The final draft shall have all the required and suggested materials. I am working on the final version of the poster which … Read More

I am working on distance calculation. I had to start from scratch since there are no tutorials online to follow so it is taking up time. The image model is still not working so I am going to make the … Read More

I worked on the project poster. I also continued working on software demo v2 and finally submitted it. I discussed with Becky on scaling the accuracy testing, and the method I should use. I have found the food density data … Read More

I worked on integrating the camera into my application. I found the bug for image processing, but I am working on finding a way to install the CUDA toolkit on Google Cloud VM. I also worked on software demo version … Read More

I was mainly in the process of transitioning.

This last week I tried to connect my C++ code with my Python code. I failed because I couldn’t convert from cv::Mat to Numpy Array. There were several problems with that. I will instead save the output of my C++ … Read More

The second video was primarily focussed on the student application. As of now, a user can search for books based on categories like sports, academics, fiction, etc. They can issue books by scanning the QR code as well. The homepage … Read More

I finished the first draft of the poster. While doing that, I needed to get the accuracies for my AI model and my image processing algorithm overall. My AI accuracy was around 90% for the testing set. However, I realized … Read More

I worked on the feedback I received from Igor concerning some of the difficult notation, and overall organization of my paper. I also removed some obvious lemmas and simplified the basic results for the second draft.

I downloaded some past posters to understand how to present my project idea through a poster. Working on the second draft of paper. Finishing up the admin app, in progress to complete all the features of the student app by … Read More

I am having trouble with binding the C++ code to Python. Besides that pretty much everything is finished. This week was (is going to) spent on working on the poster.

I worked on presenting the proof in the most succinct way possible for the poster. I worked on several iterations and finally narrowed down on what is the current first draft. I also received feedback on the first draft of … Read More

I submitted the second software video. Finishing up the first version of the poster. I also received feedback on the first draft of my paper from Charlie, and discussed the paper and feedback with Charlie. Got valuable suggestion to work … Read More

I am struggling with linking my C++ code and Python code. The conversion from numpy array to cv2::Mat and back is the problem. There are libraries to help with that, but I fail at setting them up.

I’ve done some work on the configuration parser to enable to core of the project to work: allowing a user to generate a ui with functionality from a text file. All i’ve been able to do so far runtime wise … Read More

I spent this week on finishing up a very detailed proof that Parks is NP complete. I also worked on improving the exposition of ideas leading up to the main result in my paper, which really helped me with the … Read More

Did not get much to do due to the college shut down caused by corona virus. Hoping to get in touch with my advisor and figuring out the remaining schedule.

I parallelized some of the python code. I also rewrote the color processing code into C++. The C++ code for individually changing each pixel is 600 times faster. I read up on how to make images of food look better … Read More

I did not get to do much due to the various disruptions caused by Corona virus. I am currently working on getting things in order and figuring out meeting times with my adviser and whatnot.

Working on the logout procedure and to be able to pull up books from the database correctly when the QR code is scanned. The profile page of the librarian and student needs some design elements since the users can view … Read More

 I fixed the problem where all returned images look the same. I started looking into how to parallelize the code and learning photography techniques to make images better.  I have also made a more presentable diagram, which I will also … Read More

The overall design of the project: The design of the User Interface/Data Finding process: The design for the Data Formatting process: The design for the Displaying Results process: The Partial Machine Learning process has yet to be defined as this … Read More

I am currently working on a proof that non-contiguous kPARKS is NP-Complete. I am also mostly done with my paper.

Parks Puzzle is a popular puzzle game that is played on a square grid. A Parks Puzzle consists of an nxn grid with contiguous regions known as parks. The aim of the puzzle is to place trees within parks such … Read More

Now that I have a proof for the parks puzzle, I am spending time working on a more general puzzle that we’ve dubbed kPARKS, which is the analogous problem of placing k trees in every row, column and Park. I … Read More

My project is an application used in a library to issue and return books using QR code. The primary usage of this app is in college libraries. Using personal smartphones, users can scan the QR code and check out the … Read More

I did not manage to get the foreground (the food) with zero user interaction. I have achieved pretty good success at picking just the food with minimal user interaction. I will try it with a pure white background next. I … Read More

This week I worked on finalizing my proof for the IFF and OR gadgets, and rewriting the final proof for the paper draft. I am now planning on working on an explicit algorithm for the reduction for use in the … Read More

Completed the paper outline. Working on the first draft as per the feedback received on the outline. Plan to complete the draft this week and present the first version of the project next week. I am still working on the … Read More

This week, I focused on writing the outline of the paper. I also have been using NLTK to extract features from the text reviews. I need to figure out how to handle a review that has multiple sentences since my … Read More

For this week, I followed a tutorial from Educative about Natural Language Processing and followed for data preprocessing. I was able to load the dataset and I am in the process of preprocessing it. I ran into a problem of … Read More

For the past week, I was able to skim through the Amazon Review datasets and chose Clothing, Shoes and Jewelry, on the criteria that its size is not too much. I then researched and learnt how to use pandas to … Read More

The proof has been completed. This week I will work on writing it out rigorously, as well as designing the program.

I am trying to succesfully detect the foreground object in the image, which will be food. While the initial idea was to use AI to detect the food in the image, this is not a completely solved problem yet. Since … Read More