Milestones

Project proposal (Due Oct 11, before class)

Your proposal should explicitly state the problem your project will address, your project’s goal and motivation, areas of related work, the methodology and plan for your project, and the resources needed to carry out your project. Be sure to structure your plan as a set of incremental milestones and include a schedule for meeting them.

Literature survey(Due Nov 1, before class)

Your literature survey should present an in-depth study of related work, with a particular focus on how existing work differs from your proposed work and why it is insufficent for solving the problem you propose. Through this survey, you are supposed to convince the reader that you are addressing something fundamentally new, either a brand new problem or a novel approach to an known problem.

Status report (Due Nov 22, before class)

Your status report should contain enough implementation, data, and analysis to show that your project is on the right track. You should include your original proposal with instructor comments, along with any surprising results or changes in direction, schedule, etc.

Project presentation(Due Dec 13, in class)

A brief presentation should include the proposed problem, state-of-the-art solutions, your proposed solutions including the algorithms and implementation, evaluation results, and conclusions. The presentation may include a system demo if appropriate.

Project report (Due Dec 18, before 5 pm)

A final report is required to present your research problem, summarize your contributions, survey related work, and include a detailed description of your algorithms, analysis, implementation, evaluation methodology, significant results, and any other approriate information. For team work, the report should also include a paragraph explaining, for each group member, their contributions and duties in the project.