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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:
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Introduction and definition of the problem (1-2 slides)
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Summary of previous research on this problem (2-3 slides)
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The approach you are using
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Any initial results or experiments
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Imagine yourself talking and explaining to a single person in the audience
rather than reciting a presentation.
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Be sure to show enthusiasm for
your topic. Why should others care if you don't?
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Don't worry about being nervous. It will just enhance your talk
as long as you are well prepared.
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