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Presentation 2.0: A Breakthrough

So after working on our code lately, we were able to figure out how the Contour People Counter (CPC) works. When we used it on one of our images, the person was being recognized as two different people. This person was me and at the time I was standing in front of a white background while wearing a peach shirt. Apparently, the algorithm recognized my shirt as part of the background. Of course that was the least of our problems. 

This was not the first time that I have ran into a problem with coding. I faced these problems throughout my academic career in Berea. Coding does not come easy and I feel myself struggling every time I have to interpret something, at least that is how I felt earlier in my academic career. Back then, I always felt myself asking for help and relying on others to get me through the course. Sometimes I wonder if it is just me not putting enough effort into what I am doing. If only I knew then what I know now, things would have been different. Things are going to be different this time. Getting better at coding requires doing it in repetition and this internship has done just that.  

Eventually, our hard work led to us making a breakthrough. After applying a counter to the algorithm, the code was able to count the same amount of boxes that appeared on the image. It is always great to see progress rewarded from hard work. However sometimes it can stem from the simplest changes. Computer Science is painful and annoying until you get the code working, then you end up loving it.


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