City University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science

GE2340: Artificial Intelligence -- Past, Present, and Future

Class Project Guidelines

General Objectives:

The project is intended to provide the students with an opportunity to take the initiative and develop independent research capability and creativity.  In the project, students are expected to identify problems of their own interest, tackle the problems from their own perspective, gain hand-on experience, and hopefully, have the fun of making their own discoveries.   

Project Format:

The class project will be done individually.  A project includes the following phases: choosing a project topic, conducting the project, and writing a final project report.

A project usually consists of reading papers on a chosen topic, comparing performances of different approaches, and perhaps proposing your own algorithms/improvements, implementing one or two of them. 

• The length of a report must be no more than 10 pages.
• Reports must follow the official IEEE publication format. Use the Word or Latex templates provided by IEEE.

  Specifically, you can find

  • Word template
    Click here.

• Reports are expected to include the following parts:
  • Project title and your name
  • Abstract - A paragraph that summarizes the problem and the results.
  • Introduction - Sets the context, describes the problem, and describes your solution.
  • Description - One or more sections that describes the problem and your approach to the solution in detail.
  • Evaluation - A section that quantitatively evaluates your ideas.
  • Related work - Describes representative works related to your work, and summarizes the pros and cons of each work.
  • Summary and Conclusions - Summarize what you did and what interesting things you learned from the project.
  • Reference list

• You need to submit the following items to Canvas under the directory of "Project Report".
  • A written report for your project in pdf or WORD format. You should not put your project report file in a zip/rar file; otherwise, you will not receive TurnItin similarity score. You need to upload your project report file separately from other files so that you can receive a TurnItin similarity score.
  • Please do not submit your project report to Turnitin web site (turnitin.com) for similarity score of your project report.

    When you upload your project report to Canvas, Canvas will automatically obtain a similarity score for your project report from Turnitin. You will see the similarity score on Canvas within 24 hours after you upload your project report. If you upload the same report to two different courses on Canvas, the similarity score of your report will be 100%.  Using the same project report for two different courses is not acceptable.

    You are allowed to upload your files to Canvas with an unlimited number of times before the submission deadline.

Hints for Coming Up with a Topic

Please feel free to propose any idea you want for your project.

There are two basic approaches you can use for your project.

• Develop a new idea or a new twist on an existing idea, and then do enough evaluation to serve as a proof of concept.
• Do an extensive evaluation of an existing idea that gives you some insight into the advantages or disadvantages of that idea.

Here are some suggested project topics.