1. Specifications:

• Each presentation will cover one or more related papers
• Duration: 20 min, + 10 min questions
• It is acceptable to present papers from the list of papers for your project
• Foils may be hand-written - drawings are *highly* recommended. Contact the instructor if you want LaTeX slide templates; computer/powerpoint presentations are also welcome

2. Suggested steps:

• Obtain the approval of the instructor about the topic and the paper(s)
• Fully understand the paper(s). You may want to check a few of the references too
• Contact the instructor for questions or for a brief 'dry run'
• Give a draft of the foils to the instructor(~ 1 week ahead)
Give the final foils to the instructor one day before the presentation.

3. Typical structure of a presentation

• what is the problem [1]
• motivation: why is it important / applications [1]
• method [3-5]
• main idea / intuition
• brief sketch of algorithms
• performance results
• repeat for other methods if exist [3-5]
• how do the methods compare to each other [1-2]
• weak points of each method [1]
• your suggestions for improvements [1-2]
• conclusions [1]

4. Grading scheme:

• 10% clarity of problem description
• 10% strength of 'motivation'
• 50% clarity of description of each method
• 20% comparison of methods
• 10% suggestions for improvements