July 13, 2009

Well, for those of you who missed it, paint balling was AWESOME!

Anyway, to more relevant topics. So on Friday at the end of the day, we met with Professor Stoytchev. He finally approved our setup for taking data, so on Saturday morning we were able to get started. We've been taking turns gathering data while the other two get to work doing other things. Ugonna is working on figuring out how to do a Fourier Transform of a wave file; I'm working on string matching; and Taylor is working on feature extraction and the guts of the learning algorithm. When we get it all put together, we'll have Ugonna's program do the Fourier Transform of the audio data, then feed that to the feature extraction. That will return a bunch of vectors that are discrete states from the feature extractor (essentially strings), which will then be fed to my part of the code, which will attempt to match them and create a similarity measure between each. Taylor's learning algorithm will then use this to compare each vector against each other and find the closest matching ones for the data we are looking for (This isn't the data you're looking for) lol.