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<HEAD><TITLE>CS631 Course Information</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1><CENTER><A NAME="HDT0">CS631 Course Information </A></CENTER> </H1><H3><li><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><a href=#2>What & When</a><li><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><a href=#3>Projects and Grades</a><li><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><a href=#4>The Bottom Line: What You Must Do</a></H3><br><br><H1><a name="2">What & When</H1><H2>Lectures </H2><DL COMPACT><DT>Mon, Wed, Fri 1:25-2:15 pm Olin 155 </DL><H2>Prerequisites </H2><P>CS 314 and CS 414, or equivalent courses. Students are expectedto understand fundamental issues in operating systems, file systems,and networks and to be comfortable programming in the C programminglanguage. <H2>Lecture Notes, Texts, and References </H2><P>Multimedia is a new and rapidly developing field. A comprehensivetext that is appropriate to this course is not available. Therequired readings for this class will consist of selected journaland conference articles, as well as notes we will produce. Allrequired readings will be made available in class. You are expectedto read the material <I>before</I> coming to class -- you willget significantly more out of the lectures if you do so.<H3>Required </H3><P>We will hand out course notes and copies of the relevant papers.Whenever possible, we will place these on-line, but many of thepapers are not available on line and can only be copied. Sincethe copying costs go well beyond the amount allocated for thecourse, you will be ask to pay $30 towards the copying costs.Please give a check (no cash) to the Cindy Robinson (Upson 4146)payable to "Cornell University." In the "memo"section of the check, write the course number (CS631).<H3>Optional </H3><UL><LI>Partridge, <I>Gigabit Networking</I>, Addison Wesley PublishingCompany, 1993. <LI>Jain, <I>Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing</I>, PrenticeHall, 1989. </UL><P>You are not required to buy the optional books. Partridge is anexcellent text on next generation networks, Jain is a great texton Digital Image Processing.<H3>On-line resources </H3><P>There will be a newsgroup for this course (cornell.class.cs631)and a WWW home page (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Courses/Current/CS631).The slides used in lecture will be available electronically, aswill any handouts that we write and several of the papers forthe course.<HR><H1><a name = "3">Projects and Grades </H1><H2>Laboratory Facilities </H2><P>All enrolled students will be given accounts in the Upson CS UndergraduateLab (room 315). You are welcome to use other machines for doingassignments.<H2>Requirements, Grading, and Regrades </H2><P>CS631 is a graduate course, and will be graded like one. We expectto give out mostly A's, but this depends on your doing the assignedwork. There is no final exam or mid-term in this course.<P>Your grade is determined by three measures. First, you will begraded on your answers to three homework assignments that willrequire programming and/or written responses. Second, you willcomplete a small scale research project. The homework assignmentswill constitute 25% of your grade, the project will count for75% of your grade. Third, you will required to read 75% of thepapers passed out. For each paper you read, you must post a critiqueof the paper on the Web (see below). You must get a passing gradeon 75% of the critiques to pass this course. The critiques otherwisehave no effect on your grade.<P>You should work in groups of two or three on all assignments.When working in a group, hand in a <I>single</I> response forthe group that includes the names of <I>all </I>students in thegroup. The same grade will be given to each student. We expectall students in a group to be equally able to answer questionsabout the program or project.<P>Written problem sets should be turned in electronically beforethe beginning of the lecture on the due date. Instructions forhanding in assignments will be given with the assignment. Lateassignments will be rejected. Assignments will be returned electronically.<P>Grades will be posted (indexed by a secret ID number you provide)on the web. If you believe that we have made a grading error,please bring the matter to our attention, but no later than <I>oneweek</I> after your assignment has been returned. To submit aproblem set for regrading, send a short note explaining clearlywhy you think it should be regraded to one of the TAs.<H2>Academic Integrity </H2><P>We expect students in CS631 to uphold Cornell's standards of academicintegrity. If we find out otherwise, <I>you will fail the course</I>.The work you submit in CS 631 is expected to be the result ofyour individual effort. You are free to discuss course material,approaches to problems, and details of the system with your colleaguesand instructors, but you should never misrepresent someone else'swork as your own. Permissible cooperation should never involvea student possessing a copy of all or part of another student'sprogram or other work --- regardless of whether that copy is onpaper or in a computer file on a hard disk or a floppy disk.<P>The only exception to the above rules is when students work togetherto submit a joint project. <P>It is also the student's responsibility to protect his/her workfrom unauthorized access. For example, do not discard copies ofyour programs in public places. If someone turns in your work,<I>you</I> may be held partly responsible.<HR><H1><a name="4">The Bottom Line: What You Must Do </H1><P>You must do three things to complete this course: assignments,critiques, and the project. Each assignment will tell you whatyou have to hand in. Critiques and projects are described below.<H2>Critiques </H2><P>For 75% of the papers you receive, you must publish a critiqueof the paper on the web. The critique should be available fromyour CS 631 web page (which you will create in homework assignmentone). The purpose of this critique is to get you to think criticallyabout what you read (welcome to graduate school, Virginia). Foreach paper, your critique should answer the following questionsin one to two paragraphs:<OL><LI>What is the MAIN POINT of this paper?<LI>What is SIGNIFICANT about this paper?<LI>Could and experience practitioner REPRODUCE the results inthis paper?<LI>What is WEAK about the paper? How could it have been improved(either the research or the writing)?<LI>Rate the paper on a scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best). </OL><P>We will examine these critiques to determine if you have readand understood the paper..<H2>Project Guidelines </H2><P>The final project is a small scale research project. It must havetwo qualities: it must attack a <I>research</I> problem, and itmust pertain to multimedia. So what is "research"? Researchproposes and evaluates a new solution to an interesting problem.This simple statement has two parts:<UL><LI><I>Research proposes and evaluates a new solution</I>... Simplystating an idea, or writing a program, is not research, becausethere is no evaluation. You must evaluate the idea for it to becomeresearch. Evaluation can take many forms. For example, supposeyou develop a new method for detecting scene breaks in a videosequence. You can evaluate this idea by implementing it and comparethe results of your algorithm on realistic video sequences withthat of an existing algorithm. Such a comparison might comparethe runtime performance or the quality of result (how accuratelydid it detect the scene breaks?). Or you might compare the resultsof your algorithm to the "best" results (one that ahuman produces). Another example of evaluation is designing alarge system, implementing it, and then discussing the tradeoffsin the system design. Such "experience" papers are veryvaluable to other system builders. Sometimes, but rarely, an ideacan be novel enough that simply stating it causes such a new wayof looking at things that it is research. This is a <I>very</I>hard thing to sell, however, so it better be earth shaking.<LI><I>…to and interesting problem</I>. So how can you tellwhat is interesting. This is clearly subjective, but a good metricis to ask how many people want to know the answer to your problem?As P. B. Medawar, wrote in <I>Advice to a Young Scientist</I>:"The only person interested in why 35% of sea anemones haveblack spots is the person studying why 65% of sea anemones donot have black spots" (badly paraphrased by Brian). Remember:it is just as hard to do uninteresting research as it is to dointeresting research. </UL><P>You will work in groups of two to four students on the final project.If you want to work individually or in a larger group, you mustask Brian <I>before</I> <B>Sept 23<SUP>rd</SUP></B>. We will providea list of possible projects a few weeks into the course, or youmay explore an idea of your own, subject to our approval.<P>You will be required to write a project report approximately tenpages in length and to make a 15 minute oral presentation. Yourgrade will be based equally on the quality of your research, thequality of your writing, and the quality of your presentation.Sign up sheets for the presentation will be available later. Thebest projects will be selected to present in class during thelast week of classes.<P>Three milestones, at the 5, 6, and 9 week marks, will help tomeasure your progress. The first milestone (<B>Sept 23<SUP>rd</SUP></B>)will be a brief written presentation (one to two paragraphs) ofyour <I>two</I> proposed projects (a primary and a backup). Suchpapers are called "white papers" in normal researchprojects. The second milestone (<B>Sept 30<SUP>th</SUP></B>) willbe a short (approximately 2 page) written project proposal. Thethird milestone (<B>Oct 21<SUP>st</SUP> - Oct 25<SUP>th</SUP></B>)will be a 5 minute presentation on the status of your project.The final presentation will take place on <B>Nov 25<SUP>th</SUP>and 26<SUP>th</SUP></B>. <P><hr><P><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><img align=top src="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Courses/Current/CS631/Icons/hand_point1.gif"><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Courses/Current/CS631/Welcome.html">CS631 home page</a></BODY></HTML>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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