One-Page Draft Proposal (Midnight 10/02/2024)

• Before submitting this, talk with the instructor (email, in-person, or zoom). 

• The proposal should include a brief outline of the project idea including the steps you will need to do to finish the project as well as a timeline.

• The goal here is to convince both the instructor and yourself that your project is neither too small nor too big. 

Intermediate Project Report (Midnight 06/04/2024)

The report should include the following: 

• Draft introduction and related work.

• A baseline and solid methodology.

• Status of the report and implementation - what is working, what are you having trouble with.

• Plan for the remaining time.

Final Oral Presentation (10% of the course grade) [07/05/2024]

Final Report and Code Submission (50% of the course grade) [Midnight 09/05/2024]

• The report must be submitted as a PDF file, with formatting similar to that of the papers you’ve read in the class.

• The self-contained (i.e., include ALL dependencies) code must be uploaded in GitHub and share with username: ckonstantinou. The directory should be also referenced in the report and it should contain the code must include a README file with a step-by-step guide on how to compile and run the provided code.

• The final report and code submission will be evaluated from the following four aspects: 

(1) Quality of Subject: The specific problems/issues investigated by the paper must be meaningful and are not artificial. They are expected to have some technical significance to deserve investigation. 

(2) Quality of Contribution: The paper must contain original contributions that are innovative and have a potential impact to academic research, industry application, or both.

(3) Quality of Research: The research work conducted to support, validate, or demonstrate the paper’s contribution shall have certain degree of technical depth and scientific rigorousness.

(4) Quality of Presentation: The paper’s texts and illustrations shall be able to communicate the contents effectively.

• Your final deliverable will be a 8-10 page report about your project. You will be expected to:

  • Introduce the project, placing it in context, giving an overview, and summarizing your major contributions or findings.

  • Discuss prior work and the landscape of the area.

  • Explain your methods and/or the design of your system.

  • Present the experimental setup in detail.

  • Describe the results in figures and text.

  • Discuss the meaning of the results and what the reader should take away.

  • Describe the limitations and weaknesses of your approach, system, measurements, effort, or experiments.

  • Propose a plan for future work in the area. What would you do next if you had more time?

• Report guidelines

  • Formatting: Please use the IEEE Journal Paper Template in Latex/Overleaf. If there is anything you need from the course staff, please let us know.

  • Writing an Introduction: The introduction is the first, and unfortunately sometimes only, part of your research that someone will read. It’s important for it to get the main points of your result across in a clear and precise way. Please make sure your introduction does the following:

    • States what problem the paper was solving, and why the paper is important. 

    • Briefly describe your methodology (in a few sentences).

    • States the high-level results of your work (when you have them).

• Check-ins and meetings

  • During the course of the project, it is expected to have at least a meeting with the instructor around the time the milestone is due. The goal is to make sure you’re on track to complete the project.