Week 1 Record

 

Week 1: Project Kick-Off & Planning

31/01/2025

Summary of Activities

1.    Initial Project Scope

•  Held a meeting to clarify overall project goals: process both IR and visual images, enhance them, and extract meaningful features or text (especially for weathered gravestones).

•  Discussed potential segmentation methods, OCR technologies, and the importance of robust pre-processing steps.

2.    Roles

  1. Acquiring and organizing images (IR vs.   Visual, Identifiable vs. Non-identifiable).
  2.      Image enhancement and feature extraction.
  3.     Recognition model development and testing.

3.    Project Aims

•  Created a 4-week timeline with clear milestones:

–    Week 1: Project setup, role assignments, initial code planning.

–    Week 2: Acquire images, refine enhancement strategy, test software environment.

–    Week 3: Develop and apply segmentation and recognition on sample IR images.

–    Week 4: Finalize pipeline on gravestone images, integrate OCR, evaluate performance.

 

Challenges/Concerns

•  Image Bank Access: We requested images from our supervisors (Dr. McKay / Dr. Sandall) but had to wait for the complete set.

•  Software/Equipment: Still deciding on MATLAB vs. Python (OpenCV, etc.). Eventually, MATLAB was chosen due to available toolboxes.

•  Time Constraint: With only four weeks, we needed an efficient, well-structured plan.

 

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