CPSC 525: Project Presentations

Instructor: David Lowe
April 1-8, 2014.

The final 3 classes will contain project presentations.

Tuesday, April 1

  • Joe Edwards: Eulerian video magnification

  • Victor Gan: RGB-D Object Recognition

  • Corey Kelly 3D Structure from Motion

  • Mehran Pesteie: A Framework for Shape Description Based on the Beamlet Transform

Thursday, April 3

  • Huan Qi: Superpixels and segmentation

  • Anurag Ranjan: Appearance Modelling for Realistic Facial Animation

  • Angelica Ruszkowski: Robust Motion Tracking by SIFT Feature Replacement

  • Alireza Shafaei: 2D Pose Estimation in Video Sequences

Tuesday, April 8

  • Ori Hadary

  • Shuochen Su

  • Neil Traft: Object Recognition with Biologically Plausible Features

  • Jianing Yu: Who is in the Picture?

Presentation advice

Presentations will be limited to a maximum of 15 minutes in length followed by some time for questions. A few minutes of the presentation should be devoted to providing a summary of previous research related to the topic, and the remaining time can be used to describe initial work on your project and its final goals. You probably have time to present about 12 slides in total.

A typical outline for your talk is as follows:

  • Introduction and definition of the problem (1-2 slides)
  • Summary of previous research on this problem (2-3 slides)
  • The approach you are using
  • Any initial results or experiments
  • Conclusions (1 slide)
The most common approach to preparing slides is to use Microsoft Powerpoint or other presentation software. Another method is to use a document markup language, such as LaTex, using a slide mode with large fonts. These can then be converted to PDF format, and shown using the full-screen mode of Acrobat Reader.

If desired, you can email your presentation to me (lowe@cs.ubc.ca) a few hours before your talk, and I will bring them loaded into my laptop for you to use (or you may bring your own laptop if you prefer).

Following are some hints for successful presentations:

  • Don't try to memorize your talk or just read from the slides. Instead, practice the presentation to yourself (check timing) and remember the main points for each slide that you wish to communicate so that you do not need to read.
  • Don't fill your slides with text or equations. Some brief points will be enough to remind you and the audience of the concepts you are communicating. Images or illustrations are particularly valuable and its worth devoting time to those. You can use illustrations from papers by others if you clearly give credit on the slide.
  • Imagine yourself talking and explaining to a single person in the audience rather than reciting a presentation.
  • Be sure to show enthusiasm for your topic. Why should others care if you don't?
  • Don't worry about being nervous. It will just enhance your talk as long as you are well prepared.