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\title{ECE 432  Potential Final Projects}
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%{\underline {The due date is 5/22 (W)}}.

The purpose of the final projects, which are open research projects, is to let you excise what we have learned in class, and more importantly to explore this research field by yourself. The following are some guidelines for final projects, but leaving spaces for your imagination, as they are open-ended research projects. If you are interested in a topic but not sure, please talk to me in advance. Actually, I hope to see many different final projects. So, be creative.

%Group projects are acceptable. Each group should not have more than 2 students. The final grades depends on the talk and report of the final project. Each group gives one talk, but each student must submit an individual final report.

\underline{Each project has to be an individual project. No group projects are accepted. }


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\section{A Literature Survey Project}
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Computer vision and pattern recognition is a new and ever-growing research field. Given a quarter, we only cover a subset of research problems and techniques. In our lectures, we went through technical details on some techniques, but were also sketchy on others. Therefore, it is beneficial to you (and the rest of the class) to perform a literature survey (or a tutorial) kind of final project, to cover some interesting topics that are not covered in class. You can choose you own topics. Don't cover too broadly. It is a good idea to focus on a specific research topic.

One requirement is that you need to survey \underline{at least} 50 technical papers.


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\section{A Technical Project}
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Many students find it very beneficial to apply computer vision and pattern recognition techniques to their own research problems. I also encourage it. Therefore, another type of final project is a technical project. One can either apply computer vision and pattern recognition to solve a real research problem in your discipline, or one can focus on more in-depth study on any pattern recognition methods themselves.

The requirement is that you need to compare the baseline method and your new method, and analyze their performances. What is valued most is your innovation. Having a new idea and validating it is more important than simply reporting some kind of ``good" results.



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\section{Your Talk and Report}
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%\underline{Each group} should present a 8 minutes talk, and each student should submit an {\bf individual} 20-page (double space) report on the project you've done.

Each student should give a short talk in person, a long talk in YouTube video, and submit a {\bf individual} report on the project you've done. It should be \underline{at least} 20 pages (double space), not including references.


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\item {\bf The Presentation}: All the presentations will be scheduled at {\underline {3/11/2025 and 3/13/2025}} during class for a mini-conference. Please bring your own laptop and our classroom has a data projector. Each talk will have 6$\sim$~8 minutes. What you must talk about are:
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	\item The goal you want to achieve;
	\item Your approach and your design, or your literature survey;
	\item Your results (showing the result sequences);
	\item How to improve your result if you have one more month.
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\item {\bf YouTube Presentation}: The short in-class talks are highlights of your projects. You need to have a long talk to give the details of your project. It is a video-based presentation on YouTube.
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\item The deadline of submission of your YouTube link is 3/13/2025 at 9:00am;
\item The video presentation is 15-20 min long;
\item The video should include your slides and your face;
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\item {\bf The Report}: Each student should hand in an {\bf individual} 20-page (at least) report (double-space). {\underline {The due date is 3/19/2025}}. Late submissions are not acceptable.

For a survey or tutorial project, you need to write:
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\item Introduction: what motivates you for this survey?
\item Topic and its applications.
\item Classification of various methods
\item Comparison of these methods
\item Conclusion.
%\item Course feedback.
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For a technical project, you need to write:
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\item Introduction: what motivates you for this project?
\item Problem description.
\item Baseline method
\item New method and your innovation
\item Experiment comparison
\item Conclusion
\item Course feedback
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