Future Blog Assignments

As of Reading 27, recognition of chemical hand-drawn diagrams, we are finished with class-wide assigned readings.  We have covered much of the core sketch recognition material by this point, although there are still a lot of sketch recognition applications and algorithms which we haven't explicitly discussed.  Some will still be covered in lecture to an extent, but at this point, it is time to start focusing more on your projects.

For that reason, the remaining readings will all be selected by you.  You will find 8 research papers, primarily related to sketch recognition, that apply to your project in some way.  Each week, you should post your summary and key concepts from three of them to your blog.  This corresponds to roughly one per class, maintaining a similar rate of reading as before.  These papers are related to your project though.  So you should select them based on if they seem useful to your work.  Posts will not be evaluated based on how well the paper is a match for your project, since that's up to you, but we will expect to see some of these papers appear in the bibliography of your final paper, so make sure that you can get something out of them.  Every person in the class needs 8 papers, so if your team has 3 people, you'll have 24 papers to select for referencing just by doing this assignment.

The schedule of readings for the past few weeks and remainder of the class is as follows:

10/25 - Reading 19
11/01 - Readings 20, 21, and 22
11/08 - Readings 23 and 24
11/15 - Readings 25, 26, and 27
11/22 - Project readings 1, 2, and 3
11/29 - Project readings 4, 5, and 6
12/13 - Project readings 7 and 8

Technically, 7 would be due the 6th and 8 the 13th, but due to the complications added with Thanksgiving, nothing will be due the 6th.  Both 7 and 8 will be checked on the 13th of December, which is why I say readings will be roughly one each class; it's actually slightly less than that.  Hopefully, by the 13th, you'll have the project more or less complete, but you could still get a couple useful references to add to your paper by then.  And if you want to, you can actually read all 8 and do them now!  There's no problem doing them early, so if you want to get all the blogging out of the way before Thanksgiving, I recommend it!  Doing it early is not required though.