Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Getting ready for the final exams+Numerical Gradient

We are currently studying for our final exams that will start on 25 May and end on 15 June.... what gives us hope inside all the pressure and bordem we suffer from while studying is this is the last time we will study for finals exams... ofcourse we don't have time to work on VideoSurgeon now. We managed befrore studying to integrate the object detection module into the module that dissembles the video into frames and allows the user to select the required object contour. We also wrote the code for object tracking module but we still need to test them all. We also started to code the background completion module. There is a function in Matlab that calculates the numerical gradient of a matrix. We need it in the background completion, so we want to know how it is calcualted to implement it in Java. Until we stopped we didn't figure out how to write it. If you know any information about it please don't hesitate to tell us. Pray for us to do well in our exams!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Current Status

It has been a long time since our last post on the blog... this is due to being very busy. We were busy studying for the midterms, then we were working in the term projects. In case you don't know, almost all subjects we study in our deprtment have either a project or presentation or a report... this makfes us live in a great pressure trying to catch up with all the due dates (they often come in the same week, and sometimes there is overlappting delivery dates). We also had to stop working in VideoSurgeon because the term work was taking all our time. Now we delivered the last project of this term, and there is a week or more before our final exams. What we are trying to do is to take a little time before our finals to work on VideoSurgeon then we will leave it again to study for the finals. The delivery of VideoSurgeon will be a month after our final exams finish, so we are sure this month will be full of nothing but HARD WORK. We want to implement the basic modules in VideoSurgeon before the final exams so that during the month after exams we can integrate all the softwre modules, perform testing, fix any bugs that may appear, and make the required documentation. The modules we are working on now are "Background Completion" and "Object Tracking".