The Project Page

Announcements

• Presentation schedule and information

• Project grading: Here is how I'd like to break down the project grading:
  • 15% Paper summaries
  • 10% Phase 1
  • 15% Presentation
  • 60% Project report (and final demonstration, if applicable)

  Since this is coming rather late, I am open to comments on this breakdown. Please email me before the end of the week.

• Project report: Your project report should follow the format and style of the research papers we have been reading over the course of the semester. An appropriate length is 6--10 pages. Like the research papers we have read during the semester, there should be an abstract, introduction, related work, and conclusions sections (in addition to the body of the paper.

  Please send me email if you have any questions or if I should provide more guidelines regarding the project report.

• The user's manual for the mobile robot is out. (It's still a work in progress!) (postscript, pdf)

Information

• Preliminary projects and groups
• Final project proposal information (REVISED 2/22)
• Preliminary project information & guidelines

Due dates

• February 22: preliminary project proposal (via email, ascii text files preferred; no MS Word documents!)

• February 28: final project proposal (hardcopy)

• March 20: summary of at least 3 references (these do not have to be from the list of 5 you submitted with your final project proposal)

• March 29: phase 1 (a one to two page description of your progress to date; demos to be arranged on a case by case basis)

• April 19, 24, and 26: class presentations (short presentation, possibly including a demonstration)

• April 26: Final project report and demonstration to be arranged with Prof. Huang.

Unfortunately, I expect to be out of town during the last week of classes which will make the demonstrations a bit difficult. One possibility is to do a demonstration with Richard Fauconier and have it videotaped for me to review later. In such cases, I will likely require that I receive a draft of the final project report in the previous week so that I can leave some questions for the demonstration. Another possibility is for me to give extensions for demonstrations to be done when I get back.