Progress Report - 12/01/15

Progress:

• We successfully downloaded OpenCV to work with the corresponding node.js module
• We successfully downloaded the opencv module for node.js, which can be combined with the ardrone module
• We’ve gone through some of the examples for image processing
• conversion to grayscale
• copying images
• saving and importing images
• creating a binary image highlighting pixels within a certain RGB range
• finding faces
• drawing circles

Problems:

• The functions that enabled us to complete the image processing examples are very self-contained, and I have found it hard to learn to do things at a basic level:
• How to get the color of a pixel at a given location in the image matrix
• How to set the value of a pixel at a given location
• The format in which the pixel values are stored
• The coordinate system used to create the matrices

Plans:

• Figure out the answers to the questions posed in the “Problems” section
• Feed in the drone’s video into a method using the opencv module, and display the video
• Run the image processing examples on the drone video pipeline
• Create a command loop that runs forever
• necessary to analyze images and send commands indefinitely
• Perhaps this would be in a form as simple as:
• for var i=0; i<N; i++ {
•      delay 100
•      turn 10˚ clock-wise
• }