GSoC2017-discussions

Each accepted project has its own "issue" ticket. Most of the daily discussion should happen there, better than in private emails, so all interested mentors (and everybody else) can subscribe and participate.

Projects

• Algorithm improvements to KD-Tree module: applications to ICP (Pranjal Kumar Rai)
• MVSim development (Borys Tymchenko)
• GUI app to benchmark image feature detectors and descriptors (Raghavender Sahdev)
• New GUI app to visualize and edit robot-made maps (LisGein)
• Robust SLAM and localization method using artificial fiducial markers and stereo vision (Shivang Agrawal)

Timeline

• May 4 16:00 UTC Accepted student proposals announced
• Community Bonding Period Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects
• May 30 Coding officially begins!
• Work Period Students work on their project with guidance from Mentors
• June 26 16:00 UTC Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 1 evaluations
• June 30 16:00 UTC Phase 1 Evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing student payments
• Work Period Students work on their project with guidance from Mentors
• July 24 16:00 UTC Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 2 evaluations
• Work Period Students continue working on their project with guidance from Mentors
• July 28 16:00 UTC Phase 2 Evaluation deadline
• August 21 - 29 16:00 UTC Final week: Students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation
• August 29 - September 5 16:00 UTC Mentors submit final student evaluations
• September 6 Final results of Google Summer of Code 2017 announced
• Late October Mentor Summit at Google