University of Florida, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
EEL 6935 -- Multimedia
Communications and Networking
Class Project Guidelines
General Objectives:
The project is
intended to provide the students with an opportunity to take the initiative and
develop independent research capability and creativity. In the project,
students are expected to identify problems of their own interest, tackle the
problems from their own perspective, gain hand-on experience, and hopefully,
have the fun of making their own discoveries. The project will
obviously require a good deal of time and energy, imagination and hard work.
Project Format:
The class project
will be done in a group of at most four students, requiring about 25
hours per person over the entire semester. A project includes the
following phases: choosing a project topic, writing a project proposal, conducting
the project, presenting the project in class, and writing a final project
report.
A project
usually consists of reading papers on a chosen topic, comparing performances of
different approaches, and perhaps proposing your own algorithms/improvements,
implementing one or two of them. Alternatively, it can be a thorough survey of system
development and commercial deployment.
Instructions for Preparing Your Project proposal
- Your proposal is to describe the problems you want to
explore, list references you have read, and specify your research objectives
and how to achieve these objectives. Before you submit the
proposal, you can discuss with me about the possible
topics, either during my office hours or through email.
- Each group only writes one proposal.
- Proposals are limited to 2 pages.
- Proposals must include the following parts:
- Project title and group members
- Abstract - A paragraph that briefly describes
the research problems and what you plan to achieve.
- Project plan - It should list tasks that you
plan to carry out. For each task, describe how you plan to approach
it, who in your group is primarily responsible for it, and the deadline for
completing it. In addition to the reading/programming work you plan to
do, you should also budget your time for searching the project subject,
initial literature search, preparing the final report and presentation.
- Reference list - List the references that you
have read and are relevant to your project topic. The references could
be papers, documents, and web links.
Please include complete citation of each reference: author, title of the
article, journal or book name, and the URL if appropriate.
- Email your proposal (in Word or PDF format) to the TA
before the deadline.
Instructions for Preparing and Submitting Your Project Reports
Instructions for Preparing Your Project Presentation
-
Your group will be given 30
minutes for presentation. Specifically, your presentation session
consists of a 25-minute
oral presentation, including demonstration of computer implementations if
available, and 5-minute questions and answers. Each member of your group
should describe what he/she has achieved/learned in the project.
- You should prepare slides using a computer software
(e.g. Powerpoint) for presentation using a laptop and an LCD video projector.
- For those who will not give a demonstration in the
presentation, please send the presentation file to the instructor in advance
by email, and the presentation will be given using the instructor's laptop, in
order to save time.
- For those who will give a demonstration in the
presentation, you should use your own lap top for presentation and
demonstration. If you want to give the demonstration in a particular
lab, please contact the instructor before hand.
- The suggested outline for your presentation:
- Project title and group members
- Overview of your project: the overall goal and tasks,
and who is responsible for what.
- Describe each task: what you did and what you
learned/designed.
- Demos if available
- Summary
Hints for Coming Up with a Topic
Please feel free to propose any idea you want for your
project. To help you start thinking, here are some of the projects available on
the web:
-
"Segmentation of Vehicles in Traffic Video", Tun-Yu Chiang and Wilson Lau,
Report
Videos
Presentation (ppt).
-
"3-D
Motion Estimation and Applications", Chuo-Ling Chang,
Report
Videos
Code.
-
"Multiple
Camera Tracking", Helmy Eltoukhy and Khaled Salama,
Report
Videos
Presentation (ppt).
-
"Motion
Compensated SNR and Dynamic Range Enhancement with Motion Blur Prevention
using Multicapture", Ali Ercan and Ulrich Barnhoefer,
Report
Videos
Code
Presentation (ppt).
-
"Applying
3D Methods to Video for Compression", Salih Burak Gokturk and Anne Margot F.
Aaron,
Report
Videos
Code
Presentation (ppt).
-
"Image
Mosaicing with Motion Segmentation from Video", Augusto Román and Taly Gilat,
Report
Videos
Code
Presentation (ppt).
-
"Object-Tracking using Multiple Constraints", Ismail Oner Sebe,
Report
Videos.
-
"Motion-Compensated Noise Reduction in B&W Motion Picture Films", Zhu Xiaoqing,
Report
Videos
Code
Presentation (ppt).
-
"Digital
Processing of Analog Television", Lior Zimet,
Report
Presentation (ppt).
There are two basic approaches you can use for your
project.
- Develop a new idea or a new twist on an existing idea,
and then do enough evaluation to serve as a proof of concept.
- Do an extensive evaluation of an existing idea that
gives you some insight into the advantages or disadvantages of that idea.
Here are some
suggested project topics.