Course Project

In a quarter-long project (maximum 3 students per team), you will pursue a project dealing with Deep Learning accounting for 35% of the grade.

Project Components

• Project Proposal (1 page) -- 5%: Due Apr 24 11:59pm
• Project Milestone (3-4 pages) -- 5%: Due May 12 11:59pm
• Project Final Report (5-6 pages) -- 15%: Due June 6 11:59pm
• Project Poster Session -- 10%: Final exam week -- instructions.

The scope of the project is practically anything in deep learning. This could involve training a model for a new task, building a new dataset, improving deep models in some way, testing on standard benchmarks, etc. The teaching staff will work with you to ground the expectations and guide you as and when needed. Finally, we also appreciate projects that solve personal pain points you face in everyday life or push the deep learning research further by a teeny-tiny amount.

At the conclusion of the project, your team will be responsible for writing a short research paper that summarizes the project. It should be 5-6 pages long (not including references) in the style of an IEEE CVPR conference paper (overleaf template, downloadable latex/word template).

If this is your first time writing a research project paper, here is a rough outline of sections that we recommend:

• Abstract (summarize the project’s motivation, methodology, and main findings),
• Introduction (explain why the project matters, lay out the primary innovation, lay out the findings, and end with a broader implications of your results.),
• Related work (contextualize your research amongst its closest related research projects),
• Methods (describe the process you used to conduct your research),
• Experiments/Study (explain your experimental or study setup and its main findings),
• Discussion (How do your findings can be interpreted and what others should take away from your project).

On the way to completing the research project, students will be required to submit a project proposal (1 page), and an intermediate project milestone (3-4 pages) report. Both of these will also be expected to utilize the CVPR template.

The project proposal should be a first draft of your introduction section of your final paper. It should try to answer the following questions:

• Describe the state of related work,
• Explain a problem that is unsolved given that statement,
• Introduce your ideas as an unique insight to tackle the problem or research question,
• Articulate the technical challenges you are likely to encounter,
• Plan out the experiments that justify the utility of the insight or answers the question,
• Your expected outcome

You can then discuss the feasiblity of your project idea with on of the teaching staff and get feedback on your proposal to adjust the further course of action.

The project milestone should be a draft of your final paper. It should include all sections except for the experiments section, which can be incomplete.