FYP

Progress
Report (1)

Prepared by:
George Chen Fengrong

Prepared for:
A/Prof Teoh Eam Khwang
Mr Mohammad Ghahramani

10th October 2010

FYP progress in accordance to

planned timeline, with near
completion of Stage1.
Abstract

The progress of the Final Year Project (“FYP”) is in line with the planned
proposal. The implementation of a simple LBP is almost done, except some fine
tuning of the program. Numerous obstacles were faced during these weeks ever
since the start of the project. These obstacles were overcome by fully
understanding the detailed nature of the problem. FYP was paused temporarily at
week 5 and 6 and this did not slow down the progress. Upcoming work will
involve the rounding up of simple LBP implementation and modifying it.
 1) Summary of Progress
• Set up a FYP blog to blog on FYP development

• Attempted to installed PyCV (PoissonCV), but gave up

due to insufficient support.

• Proceeded to install OpenCV, which took some time.

• Tried out and implementing the simple LBP. (in

progress, near completion).

With reference to the FYP Proposal Timeline, I am within

schedule. This is partly because I was quite lenient in the
planning of my timeline.

The following table below shows my actual work done, as

referenced to my planned timetable.
Week1- 3 4 5 6 7 Recess
2

1) Set up objectives,
Install pycv,
2) Install openCV,
Knowledge reading
planned 3) Knowledge
reading,
Familiarisation of
OpenCV and LBP
algorithm.
4) implementation
of simple LBP codes
1) 2) 3)
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Actual work setup, OpenCV, developm simple LBP
BREAK implementation
done propos understa ent of (due to
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1.1) The reason why PyCV was aborted was because I

anticipate I lack support should I continue using it, as
stated in my blog.

1.2) I spent quite a lot of time in week3 trying to install

OpenCV properly. Because there are quite a number
of procedures in correctly installing it, and allow
Visual Studio 2008 to use its libraries correctly.

1.3) I commenced the implementation of simple LBP,

before “spending time familiarizing it”, because I find
that it is more efficient to learn as we develop the
project.

1.4) I paused my FYP for a short while in Week5 as there

were 2 CAs (or quiz) from other modules. But this did
not caused me to lag behind schedule.

1.5) Implementation of simple LBP continues. The basic

idea is already there. Now is left the fine tuning, and
we try to obtain consistant result from OpenCV and
Matlab which is in progress.
2) About the OpenCV source
code
The full source code will not be reproduced here although
it is not lengthy. Instead, I present below a simple
diagram.

The first step and the last step involves OpenCV. Only in
the 2nd and 3rd steps, I used C++ which I am familiar with
in the implementation.
3) Problems encountered
3.1) Problems in installing PyCV

There were 7 to 8 different installations to correctly installed

PyCV. I reached some problems in the middle, and emailed the
author. In the end, I decide not to continue it, as there were
limited help available.

3.2) Problems installing OpenCV

There were many different instructions in “correctly” installing

OpenCV. However some of them are wrong. Whenever I reach a
problem, I either

• Uninstall everything, and reinstall from scratch.

o Pros: in the later installation steps, and if there is a

problem, u can be sure it is not due to this current
problem.

o Cons: took a lot of time uninstalling and reinstalling

everything

In the end, my friend, Melvin Sie, who is in NTU SCE assisted me

in the installation. The credit goes to him! In total, I spent
approximately 5full days in dealing with this.

3.3) Problems using OpenCV codes

I came across many syntax programming errors which made me

stuck. I attempted many times to seek solution online. The
difficulty part is: it is very difficult to describe the problem into
google.

• For example, if you have a weird error, some “mishandled

exceptions” at memory 0x12FE. If you copy this error
 message into google, most likely you can’t find the answers
you want.

How to overcome such problems?

Number1: Patience. Number2: I backup a lot of copies of my

program everytime I completed a subsection. Hence I have
version1,2,3,4,5,6,7(latest). And if I have problems which I
couldn’t solve at all at version7, I may need to return back to
version6 and redo the part on version7 again.

4) Upcoming Plans
In accordance to the FYP Proposal Timeline, I will complete Stage1
on implementing a simple LBP first, before I proceed to Stage2 to
modify it. I have a quiz on week7, and 10, but I foresee this
should not halt my FYP progress significantly.

Written by:

George Chen Fengrong

10th October 2010