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Groups

For this project you will be forming groups of 2,3, or 4 people. It would be possible for someone to work alone, or for groups of 5 to exist but they must be convincing as to why this is necessary.

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Deliverables

The goal of the project is for your group to explore some area of computer audio. The project must have a technical component (so, a valid project would not be using CakeWalk to compose a cool piece of music), but you are encouraged to explore areas such as musical performance, human perception, visualization of sound etc.

This project will be broken into 3 steps. In step one you will present your project proposal to the class and turn in a report outlining in detail what you plan to do. You will lay out what deliverables you will have for the other two steps of the project.

March 21, you will hand in a progress report detailing what you have done so far on the project and show that you have accomplished the deliverables you laid out in the proposal.

During the final week of class, April 21,23,25. You will present your final project to the class, including demos of your project when appropriate. You will also hand in a detailed report talking about the process you went through in executing your project, what worked and what didn't, and what your final results were.

Format of Project Proposal (100 points): Due February 21st before 3pm

  1. Introduction (10 points): Describe the idea
  2. Motivation (15 points): Explain why this project is interesting and valuable and why you want to do it
  3. Background (20 points): Discuss previous research in this area. Explain how you will be building upon this past work, and how your project will be novel
  4. Implementation (25 points): Outline how you will be implementing this project. The tools you will be using, the algorithms you will be developing, what previous work you can use to bootstrap, what evaluation protocol you will be using (if applicable), what resources you will require and from where you will be getting them. Show that you know what this project will require, and that you will be able to implement it
  5. Deliverables (10 points): Outline what deliverables you will have for Phase I and Phase II.
  6. Work Plan (10 points): For each group member list what portions of the project they will be responsible for.
  7. 5 minute presentation of project proposal, done either on Feb 17th or 19th (10 points)

Format of Final Project Report (100 points): Due April 21st before 3pm

  1. Introduction (10 points): Briefly describe your project and what you did
  2. Process (20 points): Explain the process of design and implementation that you went through on this project. Also discuss information like what worked and what didn't, approaches you came up with, how you might have done things differently, and what future work could be done on this project.
  3. Deliverables (50 points): provide source code, executables, screenshots, sound files or whatever is appropriate. Show the products of your work.
  4. Presentation (20 points): you will be doing a 10 minute presentation to show off your deliverables to the class. Time will be short so please focus on the demo portion of the presentation, not on presenting lots of slides. Since time is of the essence please make sure you are prepared to demo when it is your turn (there won't be time for 10 minutes of setup before you actually begin). This may mean you need to arrive a little early for class or that you setup your demos on a laptop before class. Please see Maribeth about any pre-class preparations that need to be done before your presentation.
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