M. Pietikäinen, T. Seppänen, O. Silven

Goals: To develop practical research skills by working for a short time in an active research project. Skills like this are increasingly important in the research and development positions at universities, research institutes and high-tech companies. The work will develop skills for being initiative, creativity, application of theoretical knowledge, programming and cooperation.

Contents:  A small-scale research work in an active research group. Topics will be selected from the needs of present research activities in the site of work. Main emphasis is on the development and application of methods and algorithms for information processing. Often work includes programming with Matlab, C/C++ or Java languages.

Implementation: First the research group is studied to get understanding of what are its goals. Detailed task description is written with the advisor. Typically, the work includes study of theoretical background information, programming, testing and simulations, documentation, and presentation. The presentation will include a technical report written in English in the form of a scientific publication, and a 20-minute oral presentation with slides. Depending on task assignment, a more detailed report may be necessary. Task assignments can be applied at any time all year round.

Literature: Depends on the task assignment.

Required background knowledge: A prerequisite will be a good success in the studies. Good grades in programming courses are benificial. Additional criteria are set on the task basis.

Task assignments will be evaluated twice a year the next being on week 19. During this spring, reports should be returned by 4th of May 2001.

Further information, evaluation criteria and report template (MS Word) can be achieved from:

Timo Ojala

Information processing laboratory

email: timo.ojala@ee.oulu.fi