Week 3 Post 2

It was an inspiring day for me today. It is because I started working on creating my own dataset of visual images. After studying visual images and video manipulation with Ros, YOLO, and open CV, I finally got a chance to apply the concepts and algorithms that I had been studying for almost three weeks in this internship. I am now in the process of recording my own dataset that includes videos of me displaying my hand moving up, down, left, and right. Every single move should contain twenty images that need to be detected by the program called RVIZ, which is a part of Ros. Today I can say that I am proud of myself as I no longer fear trying new things and not being afraid of failures because it is through the failures that I acquire perfection after every single try. I learned how to use a 3D camera to detect my own hand with the program, and it can send signals to the robot I am working with. It is fascinating to see the intelligence of the machines that can simply take the input and produce the output from the images and videos that I am recording. I realize that it is not an easy job to work on AI and machine learning, but I get inspired to see the fruits of my hard work little by little. I also started becoming more proud of myself as a valuable member of the team because I estimate my own work and the efforts that I put into my work, and I feel nothing but gratitude to be able to contribute to such an amazing project. I aspire to keep growing more as a computer scientist and a hardworking person, and productive days like today help me with that.

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