CS 478 - Computational Photography
(Winter quarter, 2012)

Project Report Guidelines

Due March 23 (12:15 p.m.) This deadline will be strictly enforced. (We're not kidding.)

Your project report should meet the following requirements:

Requirements:

• Have the basic elements of an academic paper: title, abstract, introduction, prior work, results, conclusions (and/or future work), acknowledgment (if appropriate), references.
  • In addition, your main contributions should span one or more sections. They might be theory, method, experiments, implementation, et cetera, as appropriate.
  • When in doubt, refer to recent published papers in graphics. With that said, conference publications tend to be very dense. For this kind of technical report, you should err on the side of being verbose instead of leaving out details.
  
  
• Your report should be self-contained. That is, the instructors should be able to look at your reports alone and get a good sense of what is attempted, and how/why it is attempted, along with what is accomplished.
  • This does not mean you should include every image ever generated in your report. If you have entirely too much cool results to show, pick representative ones to include in your paper, and attach the rest as additional results.
  
  
• While there is no hard constraint, the recommmended range of length is 5-8 pages. (Depending on your scope and work, you may require more pages. There will be no penalty for writing "too much", whereas you may be docked for writing "too little" compared to the scope of your project. For instance, in 2010, one group wrote an astonishing number---21 pages.)

• Your report must be in PDF. Other types will not be considered.
• Your code should be zipped into an archive and submitted as well. Use your discretion on what you submit. (e.g. you may choose to not submit any code that does one-time processing or calibration, unless that is an important contribution in your project. If you link against a 100MB OpenXXX library, do not include it.)
• Submit any additional results (images, videos, datasets) as appropriate. If you have a giant video, you may choose to put it on the web with appropriate access restriction, if any.
• We strongly encourage you to use LaTeX with the ACM SIGGRAPH LaTeX template, to typeset your report. However, a two-column Word document will also work.
  
  
• In summary, each team should submit a PDF file (report) and a ZIP/GZ file (code) to cs478.win12.staff@gmail.com, plus optionally a PDF/PPT/KEY file (slides) and a ZIP/GZ file (additional results). We are encouraging you to submit your slides, as 1) it helps us recall your presentation during grading, 2) it helps us demonstrate to companies sponsoring the course (e.g. NVidia) that our course is awesome and that they should keep sponsoring us with cool hardware.
  
  
• In addition, if you are working in a team of two or more students, each team member should separately and privately submit answers to the following questionaire. Please send a plaintext e-mail to the same e-mail address.
  1. Please describe your contribution to your team project.
  2. Please describe your team members' contribution to your team project, individually.
  3. If for any reason you believe that you and your partner(s) should not be assigned identical grades, please explain why.

Project Report Presentation

Presented on March 23, 12:15-3:15 p.m. (Location: Herrin Hall T-175)

Requirements:

• Each group will be given 9 minutes to present results, run any demos (yes, please) and do a Q&A. The time limit will be enforced strictly.
  • You will be graded on your presentation. (It is worth about 10% of your total deliverables for the final day.)
  • There is no need to present prior work. Of course, if your project focuses on comparing your technique with another existing work, then cover it to the extent necessary.
  • You do not need to submit your slides prior to presentation, though we encourage you to bundle it with your report submission.
  • Bring your own laptop to use in presentation. We will have a machine with Keynote and LibreOffice available, should you prefer to use ours.
  
  
• Your slides should begin with a title slide, which ought to include the project title, your name(s), and any relevant teaser image. The rest is up to you.
  • Spending the rest of the time on a demo is a viable option; so is doing a more structured presentation with slides.
  
  
• The presentation order is TBD.
  
  
• Your tablets must be returned by 5 p.m. on the same day.
  • Contact us to make other arrangements.
  • If you do not return your tablet, (among other things) you will not receive a grade for this course.