User:Tsokhna/enes100/Attendance

Write problem/project Goal
To understand what has been done on the attendance project and to  integrate facial recognition with attendance spreadsheet.

My First Task
Download all facial recognition to to my computer and see the steps the other teams did with them.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
i researched the different softwares other than visual control and yawcam.

Week1 Narrative
Over the weekend I looked for different software and downloaded yawcam and visual control. I also downloaded picasa while it downloaded every picture. I also set all the pictures to recognize my face. The picasa only works manually by setting the name of each person on each picture. The Yawcam cant be downloaded on the Mac too so i had to download it on the dell. For the yawcam i reviewed the youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_DnOWN41E and reviewed http://www.yawcam.com/help_set.php

My Second Task
I plan on focusing on visual control and its features and settings.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
Over the weekend i focused more on yawcam and how we could use it to send the files through picasa. Since yawcam can transfer the files directly to picasa the visual control is no longer needed for the project.  I took a picture on yawcam with the motion detector with an interval of 750ms and 5 seconds but it would only take the picture after i moved away from the camera then i changed the interval to 500 ms and 2 seconds and the pictures were being taken more faster.

Week2 Narrative
Over the weekend I reviewed more features on yawcam and its settings. Through it i figured out how to change the motion detector to a manual capture process. The pictures that are capture manually have to be save that gets transferred to picasa.  In the settings part of yawcam their are different settings that include both motion detector and captures. I also found another form of a facial regnonision that was just made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVSkhYHk6TQ I found how to set picasa to recognize a specific folder rather than trying to recognize all picture:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDT7GkE8PX8

My Third task
During the third week I plan on making a spread sheet that would arrange people in classes name and pictures. I also plan on focusing on the attendance sheet that would send the pictures from picasa to determine the date and time the picture was taken.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
This weekend their wasn't much to do but review more information on picasa

Week3 Narrative
This week we work on building the stand for the project i also focused on picasa and how we could use it with the attendance sheet.

My Fourth task
Over the weekend i plan on continuing on picasa and its special features.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
Over the weekend I reviewed features on Picasa and its different funtions.

Week4 Narrative
This weekend I focused more on picasa. When Pisaca is downloaded it stored all my pictures in a unknown file. It cropped the people that were in the background to be named and stored in a file. The more pictures that was stored by one person the more it got recognized by who it was. Yawcam pictures automatically got stored in picasa. I couldnt transfer the pictures that we're recognized by picasa into another filed to be put in a spread sheet but picasa asks by a check mark and an X if its the correct person or not. I found an easier way to find understand picasa by :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDT7GkE8PX8

Complete Team Page
Fill out the Team Form (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).