55:247 Image Analysis and Understanding

Project Description

Final grade will heavily depend upon the project.

The project will be based upon your current research topic (if possible) approached from an image understanding direction.

Final Project Report

The final project report will be handed in in the form of a conference paper - 4 pages maximum, preferably in LaTeX, 2-column, font Times Roman 11, line spacing 0.9, with figures and postscript images. Your report should consist of the following sections:

1. Introduction - what is the problem, motivation, previous work of others, your original approach
2. Methods - detailed description of the new approach
3. Experimental Methods - how was the method assessment done, data description, etc.
4. Results
5. Discussion of Results - comparision to results of others, comparision of results to your primary approach
6. Conclusions
7. References - in addition to the 4-page limit, add 15-25 references (page 5)

Deadlines 2014

January 27	Send email regarding your research topic. What are your image data? What are your goals? What method are you applying?
January 29	During class - We will meet individually to discuss your semester projects - TIMELINE
February 10	Finish literature search for the projects - Email text files with 30 references, select 5 most appropriate and email them as PDF. Have the Introduction paper section written in first draft, submit as PDF.
February 26	The Methods and Experimental Methods sections written in first draft - submit as PDF.
March 24	Functional version of the method's implementation.
March 26	In-class presentations - please plan on staying longer than usually - this will easily go for 4 hours, we will have pizza.
April 23	Finished validation as specified in the Experimental Methods
May 8	In electronic-form (PDF), hand in a draft of your complete project report, including figures and images.
May 11	Get comments back from instructor.
May 13	Hand in COMPLETE and FINISHED project report.
May 16, 9am-1pm, 3220 SC	Presentations and demonstrations of your projects.

The final course grade will be highly influenced by the quality of your overall project work, report, and presentation INCLUDING how you meet all the deadlines.