Deciding what to learn about is part of the research endeavor. When you plan a project (or class) you have to decide what’s important and what isn’t. In the case of this class we have to decide what papers we should read, and select an appropriate balance across topics. In the case of a class I typically start by checking if anyone else has offered similar classes and see what they cover.
Make a list of 5 or more
specific papers you think would be important or interesting for us to discuss.
For each paper give a one sentence description of why you selected it. Bring the
list on a sheet of paper to class.
Project ideas can be found at
the following link. You are welcome to come up with your own. I listed things I
could think of related to ongoing research in my lab
or with people we might want to collaborate with.
https://graphics.soe.ucsc.edu/private/blogs/blog/james_davis/cmps262_projects
Find teammates. Decide on a
project. Create a web page (not wiki) linked from
the class web page an _in_ the class directory. The
web page should include sections for Abstract and References. The abstract
should be a paragraph description of the project which includes a contribution.
Write as if the project is completed and you are describing your work.
References should be annotated. Its sufficient to
include one sentence on what the paper is about, and one sentence on why its
related to your project. Also annotate who added each reference. Each team
member should do at least one reference in time for the proposal.
You will write both a paper
draft (2 pages) and a final paper (4 pages). In both cases this should read like
a complete paper. There should be a motivation, introduction of problem,
contribution, related work, description of what you did, and conclusions. For
the draft you will be missing figures. You should draw stand-ins by hand or with
photoshop. You will find that
its somewhat easier to draft a good paper when you haven’t
yet done the work. We will talk about what makes a good paper in class. Link a
copy of the paper to your project web page.
Paper Ideas/Topics
Review each of your
classmates papers. Review criteria is provided here.
Bring two copies of the reviews printed out to class. One copy should be
anonymous and will be given to the authors, one copy needs your name and will be
given to me so I can grade your work.
When you work on animation related topics its critical to make a video. Its impossible to evaluate your work without it. The video gets submitted with a paper. At a bare minimum the video shows the results of your work. However its good practice to make the video tell the whole paper story. If someone only watched your video they would know why your problem is important, what your key contribution is, a brief overview of how you did it, and of course your impressive results. Think of the video as an advertisement to read your paper.
Make a video that is 2-5
minutes in length. Use any video editing program you like. Encode the video as
MP4 at 640x480. Link to your web page.
You will give a group presentation in class twice. Once as a draft, and again at the end of the class. The presentation should have the same organization as your paper: motivation, contribution, relation to previous work, what-you-actually-did, results, conclusion. In a real conference presentation, previous work is often dramatically condensed, in our class we’re going to leave it in because its critical to properly explaining what your contribution is.
In addition
to content. Presentation style is important. Use pictures, or videos.
Look at the audience. Etc.
Make a presentation. Link it to your project page. Deliver it in class.