Progress Report Due 2/14/16

Progress Report Due: 2/14/16

Progress: 

Point of focus: While we have masked the camera's focus to see only the color red, we are trying to get the camera to recognize/track numbers and characters in order to further decipher between subway sign circles that have the same color yet stand for seperate trains (i.e. the 4,5,6 line is all in green yet the trains are different).

Problem:

Difficulties Encountered/Plans for the Coming Week

While searching for an optical character recognition software that enables recognition within coding, many of the softwares are only compatible with softwares like Tesseract, not XCode. We will have to detect the algorithms and alter them ourselves in order for them to suit our XCode platform.

-Tackle the way through which we want to recognize text (through altering an algorithm, finding contours, etc.)

Equipments Required: 

-Mac Laptops

-Mr. Lin's iPad & Chord

-Numbers/Text (some red, some not in order for us to verify it's the text recognition that is identifying the numbers not solely the red color detection).