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A Sample Document for SGN-2556 Exercise Report
Student N.N, (student number)
email address
Abstract—The abstract goes here.
I. I NTRODUCTION
This document gives a general description on how to write
report of the exercise assignment. Also the structure of a
report should follow this template. Note that some headings
should be rewritten to be descriptive (see below). However,
some sections are always named similarly irrespective of the
publication. For instance, the first section after Abstract is
named as Introduction.
This document also serves as a layout sample for your
report. Besides the guidelines given here, follow also any
instructions given on course webpage.
Well written reports are awarded with bonuses. The bonus
system is described below.
II. M ATERIAL AND M ETHODS
This section can be renamed more specifically (e.g. Perceptron algorithm [1]). Use subsections if necessary and name
them appropriately.
A. The first subsection
B. The second subsection
C. Templates
LATEX and MS Word (OpenOffice) templates are available
at course website. LATEX users need files bare_jrnl.tex
and IEEEtran.cls to compile a document. MS Word and
OpenOffice Writer users need TRANS-JOUR.doc.
If you do not use either of the templates your report
should at least follow the structural format of this file (i.e.
Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Conclusions) and
layout. Note that your can only collect bonus points by using
the template files discussed above.
D. Presenting Graphics in a Report
You are required to include graphical presentations in your
report. Besides the required figures, you may present additional graphics (e.g. block diagram).
The organizations that publish scientific papers and journals,
e.g. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), provide quite strict guidelines for presenting graphics.
These guidelines set requirements, not only for format, but
also the contents. That is, there are demands for how an author should prepare graphical presentations (e.g. performance
curves, block diagrams, etc.) to meet scientific standards, and
possibly, specific requirements set by the publisher organization.
Besides the formal requirements, an author make sure that
the information presented in a graphical presentation is clearly
presented. For instance, the performance curves of various
algorithms included in the same figure element should be
distinctive.
A sample figure is provided in the results section to prepare
your figure for the reports produced in this course. Figure 1
presents a signal consisting of two components approximating
a 50 Hz and a 100 Hz sinusoid.
Use vector graphic formats like Encapsulated PostScript
(EPS) to obtain a high-quality images.
E. Bonus System
You can be awarded by 0, 0.5, 1 bonus points / a report.
The following criteria are used.
• Failed
– The report fails to meet the minimum requirements
(contents, structure, layout)
– “Zero-effort” reports are automatically rejected and
also change to fix the report is denied.
– A chance to fix the report in a given time period only
if the original report contains minor defects.
• 0 bonus (passed)
– Meets the minimum structural requirements and reasonable contents
– Answers/interpretations to questions/phenomena presented in the assignment sheet
– All figures asked
– The results are reasonable (i.e. the code is correct)
• 0.5 bonus
– The results are analyzed and concluded
– Possible reasons for perceived behavior of an algorithm are discussed
– References to course book
– Uses the given template files
• 1 bonus
– References to book, other material (scientific papers)
and comparison between other possible solutions to
the same problem
– More thorough analysis of results. E.g. analysis of
algorithm and comparison to theory in the course
book or other literature
– Improvements to tested algorithms or suggestions
to use an alternative algorithm discussed during the
course
Thus, a maximum of five bonus points (= 5 sessions x max.
1 bonus per session) can be collected. Bonus points can be
utilized for passed exam i.e. the grade must be at least 1.
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Functions sin2π50t and sin2π100t illustrated
50 Hz sinusoid
100 Hz sinusoid
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the proposed system is measurable by estimating the noise
in the output signal consisting of two components. The first
component. . .
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Amplitude (V)
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IV. C ONCLUSIONS
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R EFERENCES
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[1] R. Duda and P. Hart and D. Stork Pattern Classification, 2nd ed, 2001
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Fig. 1. Two sinusoids detected from the source. The signal consists of two
sinusoids. One of the sinusoids is approximately a 50 Hz sinusoid and the
second is approximately a 100 Hz sinusoid. The amplitude of both signals is
approximately one.
F. Deadline and Deadline Policy
The deadline for each report is on Thursdays at 18:00:00
o’clock. That is, you have about one week to write your
report. There is zero-tolerance for reports return late (i.e.
automatic rejection).
G. File Format
Only pdf- or ps-format are allowed in submission.
H. Fonts
Preferred fonts are for instance Computer Modern Roman,
Helvetica and Times New Roman. Use font size 10 pt in
your text. This is the default in the templates. If you use the
given templates, you may use the default font sizes also for
other entities (headings, captions, etc.). Otherwise, you should
consider the appropriate font sizes for the other entities with
respect to the fact that the text size is 10 pt (i.e. using too
small or large is not good practice).
Before submission the author should check that all fonts
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are displayed correctly also with Adobe Reader installed
at
Lintula. For instance, use a Lintula workstation to check your
report. Another way to guarantee that the fonts are displayed as
desired, is to check that the fonts are embedded into the file. In
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Adobe Reader you
can check this by checking Fonts tab in
Document Properties. The font should have either embedded
or embedded subset tag.
I. Return Instructions
The reports are returned by email. See the course website
http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/arg/SGN-2556/ for instructions. Make
sure that you obey them strictly to guarantee a successful
submission.
III. R ESULTS
The experimental results obtained with the system described
in this paper are shown in Figure 1. The performance of