Polytechnic University, Electrical Engineering

EL6123 ---- Video Processing


Project Guidelines

Project Requirements:

This course requires a project to be performed by one or two students, requiring about 40 hours effort per person over the entire semester. A project includes the following phases: choosing a project topic, writing a project plan, conducting the project, writing a mid-term and final project report, and presenting the project in class.

Project Content:

A project usually consists of reading of papers in a chosen area, compare performances of different approaches, and perhaps propose your own algorithms/improvements, implement one or two of them.

 

Project plan (2-3 pages):

 

The project plan should include the following:

1.     Project title and team members

2.     An abstract: in one paragraph or two, describe briefly the project scope and what you hope to accomplish.

3.     Project schedule: It should include a list of subtasks that you plan to accomplish; for each subtask, describe who in your team is primarily responsible for it and the deadline for completing it. You should allocate time for searching the project subject, initial literature search, preparing the midterm report, final report, and final presentation, in addition to the reading/simulation work you plan to do.

4.     List of references: this includes papers and documents and possibly web links that you have found that are relevant to your project topic. Please include complete citation of each item: author, title of the article, journal or book name, and if appropriate the URL. You should follow the standard citation format of IEEE journals.

You can discuss with me in the beginning of the semester  about the possible topics, either in my office hour or through email.

 

Project Midterm Report (5-10 pages):

 

You should think of the mid-term project report as an on-going document that starts from your project plan and will evolve into the final report. Please include the following in your midterm report. Items 1,2,5,6 are from the project plan, which you may revise based on your progress so far.

1.     Project title and team members

2.     An abstract

3.     Divide your report into multiple sections. Section 1 should be an introduction or overview. Then each subtask can be a subsection. For each subtask, describe what you have accomplished so far, and what remains to be done.

4.     Revised Project Schedule: you may want to revise the original plan based on your progress so far. You may need to modify the deadlines only, or you may even need to modify the sub-tasks. The later may be true if after your study so far, you want to redirect your project in terms of the technical content.

5.     List of references: you may add new references and delete irrelevant ones that originally appeared in the project plan.

 

Final project presentation:

 

A 10-15 minutes oral presentation, possibly with demonstration of computer implementations. Time allocation depends on the number of projects to be presented and the number of team members and will be announced later.

You should prepare a presentation file using a computer software (e.g. powerpoint).

1.     You will be giving the presentation using your laptop and a video projector. (If you don’t have a laptop, please send the presentation file to the instructor in advance in email)

2.     If you want to include any demonstration in your presentation, please make sure it can be presented directly from your computer. If you want to give the demonstration in a particular lab, please contact the instructor before hand.

3.     The suggested outline for your presentation:

a.     Project title and team members

b.     Overview of your project: the overall goal and subtasks, and who is responsible for what. (The finalized schedule)

c.     Describe each subtask: what you did and what you learnt/designed. If your project includes the comparison of different systems/techniques, you may have separate sections describing each system/technique and another section comparing these systems/techniques and summarizes the pros and cons of each. You may have another section describing your proposed solution on how to modify each or combine them.

d.     Demos if appropriate

e.     Summary: This section should briefly summarize your findings. It should also include a discussion of future works that you think should be studied.

If you have more than one person on the project team, please prepare the presentation in such a way so that each person on your team can present different parts of it.  You should practice you talk in advance to make sure that it can be delivered within the allocated time duration.

Final project report (in the form of an extended project presentation file)

Instead of requiring a separate report, please submit an extended version of the presentation file you used for the project presentation, including more analysis and results which you cannot include due to the limited presentation time. In addition to items described previously for the project presentation, it should contain a list of references, including all papers and webpages read. Please provide complete record of each reference (conf paper: complete conf. title and time and location. Journal paper: complete journal name and the time of a particular issue where the paper appears. Webpage: complete web address and article title.) I expect a slide deck of 60-100 slides. Please submit other results as separate zip files, if they are not included in the presentation file (e.g. executables, more image/video results, etc).

Suggested Project Topics


Last updated: 1/23/2012, Yao Wang