Carnegie Mellon University
15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
Spring 2005 - C. Faloutsos
Grading scheme for final report and poster
The grade of the final phase of the project will have the following
components:
- writeup: there, you would describe the novelties of your
approach and your discoveries/insights/experiments
- software: packaging, documentation, and portability. The
goal is to provide enough material, so that other people can use it and
continue your work.
- poster presentation.
A. Poster
- When: 1-4pm,
Friday 4/29, in NSH 3305.
(Notice the
slight shortening of duration)
- What: The poster of each group will consist of nine pages (e.g., use power-point to
create those 9 pages)
- How: we will provide scotch tape, to post your pages on the wall.
- Demo: it is optional but
strongly
encouraged. If you do give a demo, please bring your own laptop (and
everything else necessary: ethernet cable, power adaptors, etc)
B. Grading Scheme
- Writeup
- [2%] Introduction - Motivation
- [3%] Problem definition
- [5%] Survey
- Proposed method
- [10%] Intuition - why should it be better than the state of
the art?
- [35%] Description of its algorithms
- Experiments
- [5%] Description of your testbed; list of questions your
experiments are designed to answer
- [25%] Details of the experiments; observations (as many as
you can!)
- [5%] Conclusions
- Software (testing, packaging and documentation) [5%]
- Poster presentation [5%]
C. Specifications for packaging of software:
Please create a tar-file, like this sample
package ( use gunzip ; tar xvf). Check-list:
- after un-tar-ing, the command 'make' should
compile your system, install it if necessary and run a small demo on a
sample input file (included in your package)
- it should have a README file, corresponding to the `user's
manual': This file should describe the package in a few paragraphs,
as well as how to install it and how to use it.
- it should have a directory DOC, with your writeup, and
your foils (in your favorite form: latex, pdf, powerpoint, ms-word)
- `make paper.ps' should create a postscript
version of your writeup (skip this step, if you use ms-word)
- `make clean' should eliminate all the derived
files (*.o, *.aux, etc)
- `make all.tar' (or 'make all.zip') should create
a
tar/zip-file, ready for
distribution.
- please make sure that your package includes only the absolutely
necessary set of files!
D. What to hand in, for the final project report
On Tue April 26, 3:01pm,
please:
- bring a hard copy of the writeup in class,
- also bring a (hard copy) of the graded phase-2 report
and graded
phase-1 report and
- e-mail the instructor your tar/zip-file
before class. If the file is too large for e-mailing, contact the
instructor.