Progress Report Due: 2/28/16

Progress Report Due: 2/28/16

Progress:
Focus/Problem:

This week Mr. Lin introduced an online pamphlet to us that contains an algorithm for circle detection. After talking, we decided alongside Mr. Lin that since we've had difficulty with text recognition we will start with circle detection. Doing so will mask what the camera sees aside from the circles it detects. With our app being able to detect both color and circles, we are making the area in which the camera would be able to track text, hopefully easier to detect since the range in which it would be searching for text would be much smaller.

Target Items for the Upcoming Week:

Complete circle detection in order to go back and direct our focus on text recognition. While circle detection will be beneficial to us if it succeeds as we intend, if we can implement text recognition we can start working with VoiceOver (to relay the detected signs back to the app user).

Equipments Required: 

-Mac Laptops

-Mr. Lin's iPad & Chord

-Large numbers/ circles to verify the app recognizes what we want it to recognize (A variation of circles and numbers, some that are not red obviously, in order to make sure it's the text recognition that is detecting the numbers not just the red color recognition).