Week 11 (15/11 - 19/11)

Reunion day and meeting the BUAS collaborators

General development

This week I worked on the API to be bundled with OpenFace and the front end. The latter is now ready for images to be uploaded. At first, the plan was to transfer the media data through HTTP. Now, however, it seems like a more cloud-native and easy solution to simply have the images stored directly to the BLOB. In doing this, I can make more use of Azure triggers. There are two methods to upload this data: directly through service logic or by mounting the BLOB as a Docker volume. I am going to try both out to see which seems the better option.

Preparing for the reunion day

My reunion day was 17/11, in which I got to practice a presentation for my fellow students and hear about the other projects they are working on. I saw this as good preparation for the final presentation. The feedback was positive: my main worry was people not understanding the project, which luckily was not an issue. One point to improve on was providing more context and imagery, however. More "why" as opposed to "how".

Meeting BUAS collaborators

At the end of the week I had my first meeting with BUAS. This was an opportunity to meet some of the BUAS team, find out some context behind their work and test out the avatar generation application. I know have the means to generate my own avatar images for testing purposes.

There was, however, a clear indication that the work in the Avatar Pipeline Project was not suited to helping their process in its current form. There are various reasons for this, which will be outlined in a subsequent GAP analysis (coming later). What will be done with this will depend on the results of that analysis, though my plan at the moment is to keep working on the software engineering parts of the pipeline while leaving the functionality to be implemented later.

Spoilers for next week

• Presentation for the VR minors

• Working on the implementation of the front end and Azure functions

• Start on the GAP analysis