Project Guidelines
This course requires a project to be performed by one or two students. A project includes the following phases: choosing a project topic, writing a project plan, conducting the project, writing a final project report, and presenting the project in class.
Project Content:
A project usually consists of reading papers in a chosen area,
comparing performances of different approaches, and perhaps proposing your own
algorithms/improvements, and implementing one or two of them.
You are welcome to discuss with me about the possible topics
before the project plan is due.
Project plan (2-4
pages, single column):
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 how do you plan to approach it, who in your team is primarily responsible for it and the deadline for completing it. You should allocate time for literature search, preparing the 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 where you get the information.
A note
about literature study:
A good way to search scholarly papers is via “scholar.google.com”. If you identified a paper on the web but cannot find the full paper, you can try to use Poly / NYU library databases to obtain pdf copies of the paper. Poly library has online IEEE and ACM databases that include all papers published by IEEE and ACM. It also allows you to access databases available from NYU library.
Final project report (8-10 pages, single column):
The final report should include the following items.
1. Project title and team members
2. An abstract
3. Overview of the project and schedule
(describe the subtasks and completion schedule. Including who is responsible
for which subtask if you have multiple members on the team.)
4. Project accomplishment: This can be
divided into multiple sections, each section describing one subtask that you
have worked on. For each subtask, describe what you have done and learnt. If
your project includes a 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.
5. Summary: This section should briefly
summarize your findings. It should also include a discussion of future works
that you think should be studied.
6. List of references: update from your
project plan as appropriate.
7. Appendix: This part should include a
list of any supplementary items submitted electronically (e.g. source code and
executable, images, videos).
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).
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.
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.
c. Describe each subtask: what you did
and what you learnt/designed.
d. Demos if appropriate
e. Summary
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. A one-person team is typically given 10 minutes, and a 2-person team 15 minutes.
Document Submission:
Please submit both paper copies and electronic versions (in pdf preferably) of project plan and final report. On the day of presentation, please bring a paper copy of your slide presentation file for me. Please submit the electronic version of the slide file as well as all supplementary documents together with the final report, as directed. Please note that I may post all project plan and final report and slide presentation on course webpage. Do your best work!
Last updated: 1/17/2013, Yao Wang