Visual Perception for Autonomous Driving

Paper reviewing

Every week (except for the first two) we will read 2 to 3 papers. The success of the discussion in class will thus be due to how prepared the students come to class. Each student is expected to read all the papers that will be discussed and write two detailed reviews about the selected two papers. Depending on enrollment, each student will need to also present a paper in class. When you present, you do not need to hand in the review.

Deadline: The reviews will be due one day before the class.

Presentation

Depending on enrollment, each student will need to present a few papers in class. The presentation should be clear and practiced and the student should read the assigned paper and related work in enough detail to be able to lead a discussion and answer questions. Extra credit will be given to students who also prepare a simple experimental demo highlighting how the method works in practice.

A presentation should be roughly 45 minutes long (please time it beforehand so that you do not go overtime). Typically this is about 30 slides. You are allowed to take some material from presentations on the web as long as you cite the source fairly. In the presentation, also provide the citation to the papers you present and to any other related work you reference.

Deadline: The presentation should be handed in one day before the class (or before if you want feedback).

Project

Each student will need to write a short project proposal in the beginning of the class (in January). The projects will be research oriented. In the middle of semester course you will need to hand in a progress report. One week prior to the end of the class the final project report will need to be handed in and presented in the last lecture of the class (April). This will be a short, roughly 15-20 min, presentation.

The students can work on projects individually or in pairs. The project can be an interesting topic that the student comes up with himself/herself or with the help of the instructor. The grade will depend on the ideas, how well you present them in the report, how well you position your work in the related literature, how thorough are your experiments and how thoughtful are your conclusions.