Week 7 Post 1

Today I have been able to achieve some progress on my project. My progress on the project seems slow and steady, but it does not bother me anymore as much because I know that I am doing my best and am working by myself, which adds more pressure on me. Regardless of that, I was able to contact Mythra, and he said that I did a good job with plotting the x and y values of the centroid onto the scatterplot. I learned how to use Matlab and NumPy, as well as interpolation in Python. It was not easy at all; however, I got it all working, which made me feel proud of myself. The images that I was getting for the extracted text files that contain x and y values look hazy. They contain some noise, which is not very friendly looking to the human eye. I tried to explore some filters to smooth it out. However, the ones that I found and applied made it better but were still noisy. Mythra told me to try plotting with equal axis scaling. I do not know what that means. I can definitely say that I have grown a lot as a person throughout this internship because before, I would have been scared and frustrated by something unknown to me. I used to stress myself out a lot because there were things that my supervisor would tell me to do, and I had no idea what it was or how it worked. However, now, I am more confident in my ability to explore the unknown topic and test it many times until I finally understand the way it works and why I need it. So, I see this as another challenge, which I will definitely work on until it is ready to be presented to Mythra. I am getting more experience in computer vision, and that makes me happy because I can clearly see myself working on it in my future graduate program and career.