EECS 490: Digital Image Processing

Fall 2007, Prof. Frank Merat

Mid-term Project

In lieu of a mid-term and final exam you will berequired to do a significantcomputer project. This year we will do do a project on biomedical image processing. This mid-term project is due December 4th. Details on the format of your reports is provided below.

Report format (Mid-term and Final Projects only)

• CALL FOR PAPERS. To provide practice in writing papers these project reports will be modeled after a typical conference paper:
  • Full Paper -- The final paper is due one week after the last class. This paper must be no longer than six typed pages, including figures. See the grading policy for guidelines on how the content of the paper will be assessed. A dual column format similar to IEEE conference papers is encouraged. Download a conference paper in .doc format (919 kB) which was presented at IEEE Sensors 2003 in Toronto. You may use it as a template for formatting your report.
  • Submission procedure -- Papers should be submitted to me electronically by e-mail. There should be no problem with file size as university e-mail can now handle 50 MB attachments. The document submitted must be in Word doc format (preferred) or PDF.
    
• GRADING POLICY. The ultimate goal of the paper is to demonstrate to me that you have learned something from the course. However, most technical papers are peer reviewed by known experts in the field who will rank the paper according to different criteria including originality and technical contribution. In the spirit of this process I will review your paper and assign two letter ranks* using the following criteria.
  • Content -- this will be 70% of the total paper grade
    Abstract
    Key words which can be used to electronically search for your paper
    Introduction. This is usually a description of the problem.
    A description of what you did. This can be broken down into several sections and is where your results should be included.
    A short summary of what you did and how well it worked.
    References. You should properly use references and footnotes. Failure to do so will result in loss of points.
    Any acknowledgements.
  • Style -- this will be 30% of the total paper grade
    Clear, concise text
    Appropriate figures, charts, tables
    Spelling and grammar.
    * Letter ranks will be translated into numerical grades using the following equivalences.
    
    

    A+	100%	B+	88%	C+	78%
    A	95%	B	85%	C	75%
    A-	90%	B-	80%	C-	70%

  
  

Student Papers

The mid-term papers for Fall 2007 are now viewable.