Pattern Recognition Project

The project requirements for CS 530 are as follows:

You will produce a paper of 10-15 pages (double-spaced), plus all the figures, tables, data and code you want to use. The paper is to be written in a professional style as you would use if you were submitting it to a journal. That means it should be concise, grammatically correct, and covers the following points: a problem statement and its importance, what has been done by other researchers, what you intend to add to the body of knowledge, the methods that you used, the results you obtained, an analysis of the results and further work that you or someone else might undertake. As part of the project, you must apply two different pattern classification methods which I will approve.

You may work with one other person on a project. However, two people will be expected to produce a more thorough project and will be graded accordingly.

The schedule for the project is:

• September 15 - a list of 2 or 3 possible topics you might want to investigate.
• October 6 - a problem statement for your project and a preliminary discussion of previous work and methods including references. 1-3 pages.
• October 27 - preliminary data analysis. You will have collected an initial set of data and determined how much data is needed and a tentative feature set. 1-3 pages of analysis and an explanation of the data collection methods used.
• November 10 - an initial discussion of methods and results. 2-4 pages describing the classification method or methods you have tried and the results you have gotten. Suggest anything that you might try to improve results, if necessary.
• December 8 - Final papers due.
• December 13-17 - Oral project reports.