I'll expect you to be present in most of the classes. I will not be taking attendance but if you start missing too many classes, please take responsibility for your absence, specially when it concerns tests and homeworks. When you come to class, you must change your cell phones to silent mode. If your cell phone rings during the test, I'll deduct 10% points from that test score for you.
If you are more than ten minutes late, please try not to disrupt the class. I'll penalize you by one letter grade for habitually coming late to class (more than five times I notice you coming late or leaving early). Attendance in presentations by other students will be graded.
The grade will be based on programming projects, a test, and a presentation of current research in the field. I'll expect each of you to select a topic in computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, or multimedia, and present current research on the topic. You should search journals, or recent proceedings from Siggraph, Eurographics, or CVPR conferences, select at least one paper from within the past five years and present the paper in class. I'll also like to see an implementation of the ideas in the paper as well as a written report. If needed, I may allow two persons to combine their implementation of a topic. The distribution of grades will be as follows:
| Test | 15% |
| Paper presentation | 10% |
| Written report | 10% |
| Paper idea implementation | 40% |
| Class projects | 20% |
| Class attendance | 5% |
The test will be held on April 13, 2015. The deadline for approval of topic for research is February 20, 2015. You can also look at Google Scholar for papers.