1. Team 14: Android based Object Detection and Classification: Modeling a Child's Learning of What's Hot/Cold

2 (Best Project). No.

3 (Top 3). No.

4 (Clarity, Organization). 8

5. (Project Idea). 5

6. (Research Contribution). 4


	This report is clear, well written, concise, and very well done. Unfortunately, it does have a few shortcomings. The biggest drawback of your project was it wasn't really a "robotics" project.

	I really liked that you put object classification on the Android. It was a neat idea. What I disliked about the project was that the robotics aspect has been done before. I'll discuss this in more depth later in the review.

	I found a few issues which you did NOT fix from the proposal. These are not major issues but would need to be fixed if this were to become a research publication:

	- The flowcharts were still blurry and confusing. Did you draw them in a program and then screenshot the image? That would explain the blurriness. Another thing I disliked about the flowcharts (again, you did this in the proposal) is the inconsistent abbreviations and capitalization.
	- It was too short. I'll cut you some slack on this one as you are using two-column text and there is no title page, but 13 pages not counting the appendix? This was supposed to be a 25 page paper.
	- The subheading is completely misleading. I'll cover this further below.

	I like that you clearly stuck to the ideas you wrote in the proposal in most if not all regards. What concerned me was that the report seemed to differ significantly from the video of the cellbot we viewed in class. The subheading of your project is "Modeling a Child's learning of what's Hot/Cold" yet I have yet to see an example which does this. The title just does not reflect what was in the project. As I recall, the proposal also almost completely ignored this aspect of the project. If the project has been changed from the original goal, at least acknowledge this somewhere in the report.

	It was great to see the large testing set and I think you did quite a bit on the project.

	Why do you emphasize the Ardunio sensor in your report? Based on the video shown in class your project was a standalone app that did not need external hardware to function. Does the app actually make use of the temperature and light sensors shown in the diagram in your report? I would not think so from the results section of your report.

	Yours is an impressive Computer Vision project, but the point of this class was the Developmental Robotics aspect. I am split between three views on this matter. The first is that smaller steps such as this one must be taken to create a sentient robot. You did a nice job of doing this on the Android.

	The second is that based on your final report I'd say you know a lot more about AI algorithms than before you started. That was really what the class was about, to point out everything that has been done before in developmental robotics.

	The third: people have done SOM object classification. You're just making a port. It is a worthwhile port as I doubt Android is going to die anytime soon, but it's just a port nonetheless. Thus the 4/10 for research contribution. I would have been much more impressed if you had stuck with modeling a child's perception of hot and cold. That would have been new and original and it may have even become a research publication. Currently, your project is not an original idea.

	One last thing I want to point out is that the picture displayed on the first page of the paper (of the "Cellbot" robot) is a bit misleading, and although you explain it is an example of an Android robot, it is still misleading. You wrote an app for the Android. You did not use the Cellbot or any other kind of robot to do this.

	And my last question is: Is this going on the app store? It would be an amazing app, please put it there :)

	In conclusion, you did a great job writing and testing the program. Your only shortcomings were that (a) this is a robotics class, not a computer vision class and (b) it's been done before.

	You did a nice job with what you did and it does seem like you put a lot of time and effort into the project. Overall I'd give you a 7 or an 8 out of ten. Nice job!