Learned OpenCV and Started Programming!

This last week, I was able to explore OpenCV and started programming for my hand gestures project. During this time, I learned many functions of OpenCV and how I can read, write, show, resize, and annotate images and videos to help my project's functionality for my final product. I am using OpenCV to get live time video feed in order to test my program for the bounding box/hand detection as well as my convolutional neural network in the future. Furthermore, I tried and tested many of these different functions by myself on Jupyterlab to get a better understanding of the programming implementation.

I was also able to explore different techniques such as background subtraction, skin detection, and frame motion analysis for hand detection and a bounding box to segment the hand in images and real-time video. Currently, I have implemented some of these techniques already and am continuing to explore the program implementations to make a more efficient and accurate hand detector by testing through OpenCV. My main goals currently are to meet with my mentor to discuss next steps and start my convolutional neural network that will be used to analyze the different gestures and then perform functions on devices by using other Python libraries and programming.

So see you next week, same time, same place.