Slides should be made as visual (with videos, images, animations) and clear as possible. Students should practice their talks ahead of time to make sure they are of appropriate length -- not shorter by more than a few minutes, and certainly not longer. The talks should be well organized and polished. Take a look at some example presentations: Example1, Example2.

Initial presentation: Each team will present for about 10 mins followed by 5 mins of discussion. In the first presentation, teams will present a project proposal organized as follows:

• Problem statement: Clearly state the goal of your project.

• Related work: Briefly describe existing related work (with citations) and what your project brings to the table that these other works do not. The most relevant papers may not necessarily be papers listed on the schedule, so be sure to also look beyond the list.

• Approach: Describe the technical approach you plan to employ. Clearly state the assumptions of your approach.

• Experiments and results: Describe the experimental setup you will follow, which datasets you will use, which existing code you will exploit, what you will implement yourself, and what you would define as a success for the project. If you plan on collecting your own data, describe what data collection protocol you will follow. Specify if you plan on experimentally analyzing different characteristics of your approach, or if you will compare to existing techniques. Provide a list of experiments you will perform. Describe what you expect the experiments to reveal, or what is uncertain about the potential outcomes. If you have any preliminary results, please summarize those as well.

• Timeline: Present a timeline of the planned tasks/goals.

Progress update presentation: In this presentation, teams will update the class on their progress. Teams will remind the class what the project is (problem statement), motivation behind approach, and provide quick recap of approach and experiments. The teams will then describe the results, the updated project timeline and any challenges or issues that they face. Presentations will be 10 mins long and will be followed by 5 mins of discussion.

Final poster session to class. 

• Each Project Proposal presentation will be scored out of 30, with the following rubric: 

  1. Problem Statement (5)

  2. Related Work (5)

  3. Approach (5)

  4. Experiments and Results (5)

  5. Timeline (5)

  6. Answering questions from audience (5)

• Each Project Update presentation will be scored out of 25, with the following rubric: 

  1. Reminder of problem statement / approach / experiments (5)

  2. Progress until this point (10)

  3. Next steps / updated timeline / challenges faced (5)

  4. Answering questions from audience (5)