Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow 8472, and today, I feel like I’m progressing in a non-linear fashion. Let’s get started! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, I cleaned up my code by moving the bits I still wanted over from one .py file to another. My goal for this week was to distinguish between objects moving in the foreground and a stationary, but adaptive background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My progress this week doesn’t feel quite so linear. I got about half way to my stated goal on my own while working with a premade background subtraction function, and ended up getting stuck on trying to find a way to monitor my own progress. I’d like to first see my foreground, preferably in color, then I’d like to see my present background so I can hopefully understand the algorithm better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went into the workshop for a little help, and things really went in a lot of odd directions after that. We spent a while chasing oddball, but not quite false, leads a couple big bugs. We downloaded and installed an IDE called Spyder3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an aside, I would just like to say, that IDE’s are both a curse and a blessing. They are a pain to get working correctly, especially if you’re working with anything outside the core language. But they make development easier, and they are a lot easier to use than a command line for new programmers, once again provided someone who knows what they are doing is setting it up or the programmer has ample amounts of both luck and determination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spyder took a lot of hassle to generate a few nuggets of debug gold, and it still is misbehaving. I plan on just using it as a nicer environment for coding, but I intend to use the command line for testing unless I need a closer look at my program’s state when it fails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my big breakthroughs this week was finally realizing a mismatch between a list of list of lists and a list of lists (a 3D array and a 2D array). It looks like one of those bugs I had was about an improper use of a blur function. My current understanding is that it outputs a “color” frame even if it gets a grayscale input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I eventually arrived at a grayscale, background-subtracted image with poorly defined edges. It seems to have a hard time with my purple shirt against another background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My goal for next week is to stabilize the background subtraction with a smooth edges algorithm, and hopefully be able to draw boxes around objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final Question: did you or would you rather learn programming with an IDE or with a command line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow 8472, and today, I feel like I’m progressing in a non-linear fashion. Let’s get started! Last week, I cleaned up my code by moving the bits I still wanted over from one .py file to another. My goal for this week was to distinguish between objects … <\/p>\n