Week 6 Post 1

Today was an inspiring day that led me to progress further in my work. While I feel lonely working on the project by myself because my mentor, Mythra, went to India, I still can say that I am proud of myself. One big part of the task was accomplished, and I did it by myself without anyone's help. I finished the extraction of the x and y values from the centroid from the videos. I wrote some loops in Python that iterate through the bounding box coordinates while slicing the list that I created. It was a big step in progressing only my project because the next step requires me to be able to interpolate the frames. Even though I still have very little understanding of what that means and how to do it, I am more confident in my ability to figure that out and accomplish this task as well. It is because today's achievement boosted my confidence and reassured me of my growth in the technical side of computer vision. I am becoming more experienced as a researcher, and I cannot hold back my happiness because of it. It is amazing to see my own growth in the AI field and develop a more exploratory mind. I can already envision myself being in the classroom at Berea College and applying my newly learned skills and habits to my classroom routine. I am definitely confident about asking more in-depth (class-related) questions in the classroom and offering my answer and my vision of them. As well as this, I would love to work harder on creating new creative solutions for the projects and assignments that I would get in class. I believe that my curiosity is what moves me forward with pursuing a computer science degree, specifically AI and computer vision. These fields are relatively new compared to web and software development, and that is what excited me and keeps me wanting more work. Obviously, I am in a state of euphoria because of today's accomplishment, and I might have ups and downs on this journey, but I believe that looking forward with a positive and optimistic outlook will bring me further than I could possibly think of. 

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