CS448 Final Projects

Purpose

The purpose of the final project is to provide hand-on research experience in rendering. Projects can cover a wide variety of concrete rendering problems but should propose a novel, creative solution to this problem. Projects will be carried out small by teams and I will mentor the project team. The deliverable will be an implementation of the proposed solution and a 8-12 page paper written as a conference paper submission. Each group will be given the opportunity to present the final project to the class.

Schedule

Project Proposal

As a first step you should write a one page project proposal. The proposal should motivate the problem you are attacking and why it is interesting, state the goal of your project, identify the key technical challenges you will face, and outline your technical approach. If you plan on collaborating with others, identify your partners and briefly describe how each person's piece relates to the others. Provide references to previous work and survey what has already been done. Make your proposal available as a web page, and submit the url by sending email to cs448@graphics.stanford.edu.

The mentor will provide feedback as to whether we think your idea is reasonable, and also try to offer some technical guidance, such as. additional papers you might be interested in reading. You should arrange a meeting with your mentor before 11/7/2002.

The project proposal should be submitted as a one web page.

Project deliverables

Final paper

The final project report should take the shape of a 8-12 page paper written as a conference paper submission. It should present related works, a detail description of your visualization, and include a discussion of your design. Final paper are due on 12/13/2002.

Grading

The final project will count 3/4 (or more, if based on our judgment, we consider the project truly outstanding) towards your final grade in the course. We will consider strongly the novelty of the idea (if it's never been done before, you get lots of credit), how it address the problem at hand, the methodology you employ in doing the research, and your technical skill in implementing the idea. A high grade will be roughly equivalent to a recommendation from us that you continue to pursue your work and submit it to a conference for publication.

The project are done by small groups, but each person will be graded individually. A good group project is a system consisting of a collection of well defined subsystems. Each subsystem should be the responsibility of one person and be clearly identified as their project. A good criteria for whether you should work in a group is whether the system as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts!