Computer Science 221: Information Retrieval
Winter 2009-2010
Department of Informatics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Assignment 06
- Goals:
- This assignment is
designed to have you:
- Expand on one of the topics that interested you from the course.
- Administration:
- You may work in teams of 1, 2 or 3, no restrictions on membership.
- Propose a project, for example:
- Calculate the PageRank of the pages in wikipedia.
- Create an image based search
- Query is an image
- Output is ten images
- TDIDF matrix is replaced by a matrix of features of your choosing:
- Maybe a color histogram
- Maybe SIFT features
- Create an audio based search
- Query is a sound file (user humming?)
- Output is ten songs
- TDIF matrix is replace by a matrix of features of your choosing:
- Pitch, Beat, etc.
- Meta-data,reviews etc
- Something else?
- Prepare a report and presentation of the results
- Prepare a report of your findings.
- This depends on what your project is, but somewhere between 5 and 15 page description of what you did, how you did it and what your results are would be appropriate.
- Present a demo/powerpoint presentation of your project in person.
- If you choose to use PowerPoint, no more than 3 slides/roughly 10 minutes.
- Be prepared to answer questions about the software for about 30 additional minutes.
- The goal of this is to communicate to me what you accomplished and help me to understand what you did.
- Submitting your assignment
- Pick a slot during finals week when you can present your results and turn in your report