IFT 6765 - Links between Computer Vision and Language

Guidelines for paper presentations
(Guidelines credits: Self-supervised Representation Learning course taught by Aaron Courville at UdeM)

Each students will present twice in the whole course. One of the presentations will be on the paper assigned for reviewing to the class that day. Another presentation will be from the additional papers for the topic of that day. Students can choose to present multiple papers for their second presentation.

The presentation should include a novel synthesis of the material. Slides and lecture notes are to be made available on the course website. The presentation of novel experiments exploring and reproducing the methods is encouraged but not strictly required. Lectures should include the following:

  • A summary of the key ideas, motivations and insights of the work.

  • A contextualization of the work within the literature - especially the literature that, at the point of presentation, that was previously reviewed in the course.

  • Strengths, weaknesses of the work and your own reflections (see the guidelines for paper reviews).

  • Answering questions from the fellow students and instructor in class.

  • Please keep in mind the following when preparing your talk.

    1. When presenting the paper assigned for reviewing, keep in mind that the class has already read the assigned paper. It's important to present the paper but the emphasis should be on providing context and either diving more thoroughly into specific aspects of the paper or present follow-on work. You can also briefly talk about your own ideas of how to build upon the paper for future work.

    2. When going beyond the assigned papers, here you need to slow-down and provide context for the class. They likely aren't aware of this work and you can't present it at the same pace as you would present the assigned paper.

    3. Use lots of illustrations and other visual aids. In particular, don't limit yourself to the figures and illustrations that are found in the assigned paper.

    4. Whenever possible, try to open up the lecture for discussions where other students can pitch in on an important point.

    5. Try to pause a couple of times in between the lecture to take questions / comments.