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# 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 --> 






