CS 478 - Computational Photography
(Winter quarter, 2012)

Project Proposal Guidelines

Due February 15

Your project proposal should meet the following requirements:

Proposal Requirements:

• Title and Aim: Have a well-defined project title and goal for the project.
  
  
• Abstract: This is a paragraph-long summary of your project. Look at any recent conference publications in graphics, and you will get the idea.
  
  
• Prior work: Your proposal should discuss existing prior work, or other related attempts at achieving your goal. It may be that no prior work explicitly addresses the exact problem, which may necessarily be the case if you are working on a novel idea. Even then, there should be related work that you should list and discuss. Researching prior work will let you discover what has been tried, successfully or unsuccessfully, and determine what constitutes "novel" idea.
  
  
• Implementation Detail: Describe what needs to be done by your team. What technologies will you use? Will you implement an existing algorithm? If so, which one? Will you develop your own? If so, how will you go about determining it? Will you try several competing algorithms and do mix-and-match? On what platform? This section should contain the meat of the proposal.
  
  
• Milestones: Lay out the list of steps necessary for a successful completion of the project, with an accompanying timeline. A successful proposal will have measurable milestones. This could simply be a re-iteration of your implementation detail, organized in a more digestible chunks.
  
  
• Division of Labor: In case of a two-person project, clearly specify the division of labor.

Project Proposal Presentation

Presented on February 22

Presentation Requirements:

Prepare a 4-minute presentation (including any Q&A). Submit your slides to Jongmin (in Keynote or PowerPoint. OpenOffice is also cool) by midnight Tuesday, Feb 21.

• Slides: Your slides should begin with a title slide, which ought to include the project title, your name(s), and any relevant teaser image. The remaining slides should be divided up between prior work and any progress you have made thus far. The division is up to you. (See note below.)
  
  
• Note on progress: The presentation takes place a week after the proposal is due, so you will have had time to work on your project (right?). It is not required, but we encourage you to share your progress with us in the presentation. If not, feel free to instead spend slides on prior work, and narrate over them how your project will be an improvement.