DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Following is the schedule for the project proposals and reports. You are strongly encouraged to discuss your project throughout the quarter with the instructor and TA.

Initial project proposal

On or before Sunday, Feb 18, 11:59 PM, you must submit an initial project proposal in pdf format. Since you will have to use the CVPR formatting instructions eventually, you may want to start using it now. The initial proposal must be written in well-organized continuous English, as opposed to just an outline. The initial proposal must explain explicitly and clearly what you will do. In particular, the proposal must include:

• a list of four to six milestones, and deadlines to achieve the milestones
• a list of questions to be answered during the project and discussed in the report
• if the project is experimental, which existing software you will use directly or build upon
• if the project is experimental, precisely which datasets you will use and where you can obtain them quickly
• a few recent and very closely related papers that you will build on, with full bibliographic data.

Revised project proposal

On or before Sunday, Feb 25, 11:59 PM, you must submit a revised project proposal in pdf format. Since you will have to use the CVPR formatting instructions eventually, you should start using it now. In the first phase of the project, some important tasks include:

• formulating clear, sensible hypotheses to test,
• finding useful training/test sets,
• surveying closely related recent papers, and
• selecting and obtaining existing software, and developing new software.

Draft project report

On or before Sunday, Mar 10, 11:59 PM, you must submit a complete, polished draft of your project report in pdf format. The report should resemble as closely as possible a good submission for a conference. You must follow the CVPR formatting instructions. You may find Charles Elkan's notes on machine learning projects and reports helpful.

Final project report

On or before Sunday, Mar 17, 11:59 PM, you must submit the final version of your project report in pdf format. You must follow the CVPR formatting instructions. Project reports will be evaluated using these grading criteria.

Last update: January 3, 2024. Content adapted from previous CSE courses by Serge Belongie and Charles Elkan.