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Term Project Guidelines

Term project will take the following format:

 Each person will be assigned to one of three or four teams.

 Each team is given a problem to be solved.

 You may use any resource at your disposal to help you in arriving at a plausible solution.

 A written report and a presentation are required for the term project

- the deadline for the written report is March 4, 2002

- each group will submit one report

 You will be given the opportunity to interact and strategize with your team in class, and to ask questions.

 Significant interactions among team members outside of class are expected; these interactions presumably are dominated by email messages.

 A 20-min presentation is expected from each team on March 4, 2002. The opposing teams will get a chance to critique the presentation and to ask questions.

Suggested project process:

  1. Define the project you wish to pursue
  2. Do library research for existing algorithms (to get ideas)
  3. Define MATLAB (or C) functions to implement
  4. Code and debug your functions
  5. Test your functions on some synthetic images
  6. Process images and do the experiments
  7. Analyze results using appropriate metrics, tabulate or plot, etc.
  8. Write report, include images
  9. Present your project to the class

Written Report Guidelines:

  1. Introduction - 1 page - description of the project, components of the project
  2. Background - max. 4 pages - review of the literature, description of the techniques used by others, selection of the methods for your project, etc.
  3. Methods - max. 4 pages - what techniques you have used, how the parameters were set, description of tests, synthetic images, etc.
  4. Results - results of your project, statistical analysis, etc.
  5. Discussion and Conclusions - max. 3 pages - discussion of the results, description of the parameters and conditions that the results depend on, discussion on how the specific parameters affected your results, discussion of the techniques used to obtain the results -in terms of speed, accuracy, etc. , and a summary of what you have learned from the project
  6. References - list of papers, books, web sites, etc.
  7. Appendix - copy of your source code, copies of important papers and other references

Grading of the written report (maximum 100%):

  1. Introduction (5%)
  2. Background (15%)
  3. Methods (20%)
  4. Results (25%)
  5. Discussion and Conclusions (20%)
  6. References (5%)
  7. Appendix (5%)
  8. Overall organization and clarity of the report (5%)