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Ongoing notes and updates on projects. They cover design decisions, or just thoughts along the way.

Homographic Transformation

For a cleaner lane detection pipeline, we will create a bird eye's view transformation, apply it to the lane line mask derived from the output of YOLOPv2

Lane Line Detection Part 1

With the camera calibrated, it's easy to run YOLOPv2 on an undistorted image. We went from this: to this: All images are rotated 90 degrees clockwise, that is b…

Camera Calibration

Using MATLAB, taking a bunch of pictures with a 12x6 checkerboard with pattern of size 56mm Image size choosen as 1280x1280 Overall Mean Error at 0.47 pixels, b…

Enclosure and car mount

Using the existing Raspberry Pi's case and a MagSafe phone holder; the magnet was glued to a 3D printed adapter designed with Fusion 360. The back piece was ada…

2026-08-08
road-logger

Components and sensors

I will use the Raspberry Pi 3 that has been lying around for a while. It sounds like a great limitation on its own because it only has 1GB of RAM, enough to run…