# Capstone Update # 12 (Online) For each of your name, talk about * What you did last week * eg Research? Data Collection? Etc... ### Yick * nothing much ... * failed to charm auslan communities to sharing their datasets; * underestimated the complexity of auslan-sign-bank webpage structure; working on python-scrapy-api to have a workaround; * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapy; have set it up in vm, at least in my local workspace, not sure whether it affects globally; * intended to use some image enhancement to improve the input feed to openpose * but overestimated my capabilities to coding real-time image processing: gaussian filter and median filter; * crumbled by other commitments; :cry: * let the team down :disappointed: (NOT TRUE!! haha you are not letting the team down) * my own reference: * (different python models experimented) https://github.com/jayshah19949596/DeepSign-A-Deep-Learning-Architecture-for-Sign-Language-Recognition * https://github.com/frankibem/CS_6001 * (transfer learning) https://github.com/devbihari/Sign-Language-Translation ### Tsz Kiu ### Matthew #### Virtual Machine Update * Lucas has now "fixed" (temporarily) our camera issue by increasing resolution to 640x480 * You can now try to run the application and see camera change effect * Problem still in frames dropping out (think could be due to VPN connection issues) * Thus, if in scenario that VM Connection is too bad, I can try to make an option where you record your sign, and we return you the translation for each frame (no more real time) #### Gesture Recognition Development * Read tutorials and articles on LSTM and RNN. * Trying out models on [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/) which is a great easy to learn machine learning IDE with notebook + easy to load datasets ## Assignment 2 Assign yourself to choose which assignment 2 you would like to do: * Ethics --> * Project Management --> Matthew? * Sustainability --> yick * Financial Analysis -->