UME542

Course Info

Lectures: EECS 1200, Mondays/Wednesdays 10:30-12:00
Instructor Office Hours: EECS 2311, Wednesdays 12:00-1:00
GSI Office Hours: 1637 BBB, Mondays 9:00-10:30

Instructors: Jeong Joon Park , Stella Yu

Lecture Format: For each lecture starting from Lecture 3, all students are required to read the two assigned papers. At the beginning of each lecture, there will be a 15-minute lecture, followed by the presentation and discussion for the two papers.

Paper Reviews: For each paper to be presented in lecture, you will summarize an aspect of the paper that you find interesting, specifically what is interesting and why, and then additionally explain how the 2 papers are connected.

Presentations: A team of two students will prepare the presentation of each paper, which is composed of 15-minute presentation of the paper followed by a 5-minute critique and a 10-minute group discussion. For the presentation of the paper, the students should cover the history of the paper (Determine where this paper sits in the context of previous work. Find and report on one older paper cited by the current paper) briefly and explain the main idea, algorithm, and the experiments to the rest of the class. For the 5-minute critique, the student should present a CVPR-style review of the paper (described below) and suggest a possible future direction of the paper. After each presentation and critique, there's 10 minute group discussion. The presentor team is should prepare 3 interesting questions and discussion points to the class. The two teammates are expected to contribute equally to the preparation of the all materials. (sign up sheet)

CVPR-style review format is the following:

Paper Summary
Paper Strengths
Confidence Level: 1~5
Final Rating: Strong Reject, Weak Reject, Borderline, Weak Accept, Strong Accept
Final Rating Justification

GPU Computing: Great Lakes computing credits are provided for the project. More details to follow.

Grading:

50%: Final Project
30%: Paper Reviews (lowest 3 dropped) + Active Discussions (1+ post) before and during class
18%: Class Presentation
02%: Course Feedback

Piazza Rules:

We use Piazza for discussions on conceptual and technical questions among classmates. There is no anonymity. Please be respectful to your classmates.
Please post your questions, answers, and comments in dedicated folders. Each paper we read in the class has its own thread of discussions.
Please check Piazza for already posted questions before posting a new one. Unnecessarily clogging up Piazza makes the platform less usable for everybody.
Please use Piazza for all communications, private or public, as much as possible. Others will benefit from answers and discussions on public questions.
Piazza is moderated by the teaching staff.

Email Rules:

Please email syu-eecs542@umich.edu only if the Piazza private channel does not work for you. Emails to individual teaching staff members will be ignored.
This single contact ensures that your concerns are addressed in the most timely manner, with the clarity of a single voice that represents the entire instruction team.

Sign-Up:

If you need to be considered for a registration override or put on the wait-list, please sign up at this form.