Topic outline

  • Project work

    The project work is done in groups of 2 or 3 people. The workload is about 2 credits. You are free to choose the topic yourself. More specific instructions on topic selection and project goals will be given during the first lecture.

    There will be several deadlines to motivate you to work on the project throughout the whole duration of the course, and not just at the very end :-)

    The deadlines are for the: 

    1. Abstract
    2. Project Plan
    3. Literature survey
    4. Project Presentation video
    5. Final report

    The Project Plan and the Literature survey will be peer-graded by other students. The peer-grading will not influence the final project grade but will be considered in the overall course grade. Note that all group members submit a copy of the project plan and literature survey. The project grade itself is proposed by an evaluator working in the Aalto speech recognition research group and then is agreed upon by the course staff committee. The grade is based on the final report.

    Every group also needs to submit a 5-minute video presentation describing the project and its results. Everyone is asked to watch every other group's videos and vote for the best one. Presentations are also considered to be a peer-grading activity.

    The tentative overall schedule for the project work is given below:
    • Project group forming: Complete the mandatory entrance survey to indicate your intentions and preferences regarding the project work, deadline 22 January midnight. Based on your answers, the groups will be formed by the course staff. The survey opens on 05 January
    • Topic and abstract submission: submit a team abstract (one-paragraph description of the intended topic). Deadline 9 Feb
    • Project plan and Literature survey: Deadline 22 March
    • Peer grading for the Project plan and the Literature survey: Deadline 29 March
    • Reaction to peer grading: 5 April
    • Full project report: submission of the final report. See details below. Deadline 19 April
    • Project Presentation video (5 min): Deadline 3 May
    • Vote for the best Project Presentation video: Deadline 17 May

    • Quiz icon
      Entrance survey Quiz

      This is a mandatory survey for participation in the course. 

      The course project teams will be formed based on these answers. The survey has questions about four areas:

      1. your current skills and background
      2. your preferences for teammates (if any)
      3. the amount of time and attention you are able to dedicate to the project
      4. your plans and hopes for the project
      Your answers will help us place you in a team that you'll be (hopefully) comfortable working in.

      The deadline is 22.01 at 23.59
      The groups will be formed by 26.01 by course assistants and you'll get notified.

      If you don't answer the survey, you'll be assigned to a project group randomly. 

    • Assignment icon
      Team abstract Assignment

      1. Include the name and the composition of your Team (names and email addresses).
      2. Write one paragraph on the more specific topic that you plan to address: briefly consider all the aspects of your project, including which approach you will use to evaluate your results. 

      You will receive short feedback on your abstract.


    • Assignment icon
      Literature Survey and Project Plan Group Assignment
    • Not available unless: You belong to any group
      Forum icon
      Literature survey group peer review Forum
      Please create a topic discussion and upload your literature review. Other groups responsible for giving you peer-review feedback will comment.
      You will need to post your report as soon as possible. The deadline to give feedback is 9 April 2024.
      Please name the topic for discussion as Group Number + Topic so that the other group can find the correct topic on which to give their review.

      For reviewers, please also mention your group number so that other groups can keep track of their feedback. The feedback in this forum is not anonymous.

      What to review? There is no formal instruction. You are supposed to provide some constructive feedback on the other group's literature review. 

      Here is the list of the groups and their task. Each group is supposed to have 2 reviewers and also needs to give peer review on 2 projects. For example, according to the table below, Group 1 will need to review Group 6 and Group 14, and Group 2 will need to review Group 15 and Group 32.

       
      Group You will need to REVIEW the following groups:
      1 Group 6, Group 14
      2 Group 15, Group 32
      3 Group 13, Group 22
      4 Group 20, Group 34
      5 Group 12, Group 17
      6 Group 5, Group 24
      7 Group 6, Group 30
      8 Group 3, Group 26
      10 Group 11, Group 13
      11 Group 16, Group 28
      12 Group 3, Group 17
      13 Group 18, Group 19
      14 Group 18, Group 31
      15 Group 25, Group 29
      16 Group 16, Group 23
      17 Group 5, Group 23
      18 Group 8, Group 15
      19 Group 27, Group 30
      20 Group 10, Group 32
      22 Group 27, Group 31
      23 Group 10, Group 29
      24 Group 2, Group 7
      25 Group 1, Group 14
      26 Group 4, Group 7
      27 Group 4, Group 28
      28 Group 25, Group 34
      29 Group 12, Group 26
      30 Group 1, Group 11
      31 Group 8, Group 24
      32 Group 19, Group 20
      34 Group 2, Group 22



    • Assignment icon
      Full project report Assignment

      The report should be structured as follows:

      • Title page: the course code and course name, student name(s) and ID(s), date, the topic of your project.
      • Introduction: Describe the research problem: You can think of it through answering questions like why is it a relevant or interesting problem? How can one approach it, in general? How are you approaching it in this work?
      • Methods: Describe the methods that you use in the work.
      • Experiments: What is the experimental setup? Give sufficient details on how the experiments were carried out, so that another person familiar with this course but not with this topic might replicate your experiments.
      • Results: Describe the results of your experiments. You may want to use tables to summarize results, or to show typical samples or particularly interesting cases.
      • Conclusions / Discussion: Based on your results, what conclusions can you draw regarding the question you set out to study?
      • Division of labor: In a group work, describe who did what.
      • Acknowledgments: Did you get help? Anyone you wish to particularly thank?
      • References: The bibliography that you utilized, and that you refer to in the text
      • Appendix: Your own program code, possible excerpts of data etc.


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      Project Video Submission Assignment
      5 minute video summarizing your project
    • URL icon
      Watch Project Videos Here URL
    • Questionnaire icon
      Vote for the Best Project Videos Questionnaire
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