Month: January 2021

This week, or this term, has been sort of frustrating. During the first two weeks of the term, I was both working at Tektronix and handling four classes. Luckily, my advisor managed to get a credit transfer so that I did not need to take a 100 level course this term. I barely had any free time and also had trouble trying to stay on top of things. This meant that I had very little time to work on the captsone project. I did manage to get some things done, however, like a generator that pulled information directly from the user hard drive to train instead of forcing the developer to keep everything in memory.

Currently I have been working on the recurrent aspect of the project. We need some method to keep track of temporal changes for a streamed video, so some of the NN needs to be dedicated to handling previous images from. This is where LSTM comes in. Long Short Term Memory is a layer in a NN which takes in a sequence of information instead of just one input. This alows it to take into account changes between the different frames. This is hard to implement, as we now need to generate a ton of data of video.

Finally, we’ve had a bit of trouble with one of our other teammates. He’s part of a different section, and has failed to respond to any communication for the last while. I hope that he comes around and starts helping again, as right now it’s worrying.

My current interests include several different activities. Drawing, which takes up most of my free time, is the one I spend the most time on. Russian language is something that I participate with every day to help me learn over time. Finally, I hike often enough for it to be considered a hobby, every couple of weekends.

I’ve been at OSU for six years now. At first I was only a CS major, but found during my internship at Garmin that I enjoyed a combination which included aspects of signals and systems. So I decided to take a second major in ECE for the different courses that pertained to that topic.

As part of this second major, I must complete a second small project. This second project involves using a raspberry pi to make a camera attached to a servo follow movement.