Progress Update

The past few weeks have been really busy.  
Jacqui and I finished writing the code for three color features.  The opponent histogram, the rghistogram, and the transformed color distribution.  The first color feature, the opponent histogram, has been tested.  It works fairly well, however, we need to continue to adjust some of the parameters in order to get more accurate results.

Jacqui and I have also been working on getting ready for the Student Research Symposium (SRS).  We went to a workshop to get tips on writing an extended abstract.  We then worked on a draft for the extended abstract.  Each of us worked on separate sections within the abstract.  I worked on the introduction and methods sections and Jacqui worked on the results and discussion and conclusion sections.  Once we finished the draft both Yang and Dr. Zheng reviewed it and suggested changes.  We finalized the document and turned that in.

The SRS was held yesterday, Friday April 13, 2012.  Jacqui and I presented our poster, which turned out very well.  We had many viewers.  Many also seemed intrigued with the research we were doing.  Some official reviewers came by to view our presentation.  The head of the SRS said we would be receiving the critiques from these reviewers sometime after the symposium.

We are headed to Las Vegas, Nevada tomorrow.  We are attending a conference.  Dr. Zheng said our main presentation will be held on Monday around 10am.  Jacqui and I will also be attending some of the seminars there.


~ Kaitlyn

Progress Update

Last week Jacqui and I went to the poster workshop.  So that we could get ideas for creating out poster for the Student Research Symposium.  They also said there would be more workshops to attend and we could go to the Writing Center for help.

We had a meeting on Friday.  Zheng told us that Jacqui and I would be going to the Grace Hopper conference in Baltimore.  He said we should start looking into and setting up reservations.

While programming the color feature, I ran into a few problems.  My code refused to compile once I added a color photo to the project. I changed the path to the photo within the code, however, syntactically the path was written wrong for the linux operating system.  Once this was fixed we also determined that the rest of the program wouldn't accept the color feature code due to the fact that the color features are based on 3D instead of the 2D that the grayscale photos are based on.

Yang was able to change the code so that it would work for the color feature.

~ Kaitlyn

Update

I have been working on the color feature implementation.  I have the formulas implemented.  Next, I need to implement how the values that I receive from the formulas will be used in order to extract the feature.  I am going to try to meet with Yang later this week in order to go over this.

There is also a poster workshop that Jacqui and I will be attending on wednesday so that we can get help and ideas for creating our poster for the Student Research Symposium.


~Kaitlyn

Progress Update

Upon submitting the form for the Student Research Symposium here at NMT, I was informed that we would be able to complete a poster presentation.  There are going to be certain times that we can go to get help organizing and creating our poster.

During the meeting with Yang, I was able to better understand what I needed to do in order to implement the code for the color features.  I am currently in the middle of implementing the code, there is just a few more things I need to figure out in order to finish one of the color features.

~Kaitlyn

Student Research Symposium

Kate and I have submitted our application for New Mexico Tech's Student Research Symposium, with my abstract as part of the submission. We're planning on doing a poster presentation. The poster is due March 23, and the extended abstract is due April 2. The Symposium itself will be held on Friday, April 13.

The meeting today with Yang went well. We'll start working more intensively on the color features.

Jacqui

Progress Update

Jacqui and I got together to go over the code for the project.  We each had trouble getting the code to compile.  While looking at the code we gathered information on which we thought may have been causing the compilation errors. We noticed that the file paths were different in many places and weren't sure which we needed to change (if all).  

We were able to meet with Yang about this.  He showed us which lines we needed to change.  Once I changed these lines I was able to compile the code.  

Another issue I ran into is that I don't have enough memory on my school account to process all of the photos.  I was hoping to be able to get a matlab version for my home computer, however, I have not been able to do that.  Dr. Zheng said that it is ok if I just use one or two pictures to start processing my code.  Once it works for these couple of pictures I could hand the code over to Yang for full testing over all of the pictures.  

As for now I am working on the RGB color feature.

- Kaitlyn

Meeting - January 20, 2011

Back from break!!!

This semester Dr. Zheng said that Kaitlyn and Jacqui will start working a lot more with implementation.  We will start by implementing color features.  We will each work on different features.

We also decided that we will work with Yang to go over how to turn the knowledge from the color features papers into code.  We will also discuss which files and the placement of the code.

Dr. Zheng also wanted Kaitlyn and Jacqui to get together to figure out the plans for the conference reservations.  We will be going to the conference on April 16th through the 18th.  We will be staying at the Flamingo hotel and flying out to Vegas using Southwest airlines.