One of the most important questions is how to prepare a presentation? In this story, I will handle a sub-version of this question:
How to prepare a paper presentation?
Actually, I am not sure whether there are rules or not. However, some tricks have an importance that you should keep in mind when you prepare a presentation. I will mention a paper presentation in my expertise area which is computer science (especially artificial intelligence).
Here is the flow of presentation pages that I prefer in my paper presentation:
1-Cover: This is the first page of your presentation. You write the title of the presentation, the authors’ names, and their e-mail addresses. Besides, this page can contain an image. I generally prefer to put an image that related to the paper. However, this is not essential.
2-Introduction: In this section, you can mention your task and your motivation for the topic. You can also visualize the task.
3-Related Work: As can be understood from its name, you should explain previous work about your topic. You should give some brief information about the literature and pros & cons.
4-Contributions: If your paper has several important contributions, then it will be better to explain these contributions on the new page. Therefore, you can emphasize what you/authors have done in this work.
5-Methodology: You should give details about the method that you provide in your paper. This section could have multiple pages. It depends on the complexity of the proposed approach and other important details of your method (e.g., basic information about the concept).
6-Experimental Results: In this section, I generally start with dataset/datasets. I show some example images from datasets and I give related information, e.g., number of images. Then, you can start to mention the details of your experiments and their outcomes.
7-Conclusion: On this page, you can summarize your work. The important thing is to explain your inference from this work. Moreover, you can give some basic ideas about future work.
There are also several tricks that you should take into consideration. First of all, you should keep in mind that the presentation is an auxiliary material. So, the text amount has to be as minimum as possible. Please note that you are the speaker. You talk and presentation supports you and your speech with materials such as figures, tables, some basic statements, etc.
Another important thing is the footer of your template. I always put my name and the topic of the presentation. Besides, the page number has to be added to the slides. Because, when the audience wants to ask questions about one of your pages at the end of the presentation, it is easy to note the page number and ask you to turn back to the corresponding page. If there is no page number, this is really painful for both you and the person who wants to ask a question.
In your presentation, if you do not prepare the figures and you take it from somewhere else, you have to give the corresponding reference. Actually, this is the same for almost everything that you take it from somewhere. This is crucial, don’t forget it.
The length of your presentation is another key point. It actually depends on the time you have for the presentation. You have to finish your presentation within the time you have. You must not exceed the time and you must not present very quickly as well. Time management is so important in the presentation. Because of that, after you finish preparing your presentation, it will be effective if you try to present yourself or someone else in order to check your time management. Besides, this is also helpful to see the weaknesses of your presentation.
If your company or your university has a template for the presentation, you should use it. If they don’t have, then you can use which template you want (Basic template is better for understandable). But, it will be nice if you add the logo of your company/university to the presentation pages.
In order to examine the paper presentation, you can find lots of paper presentation examples on the internet. I suggest you to check the presentations that were done in the top conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.).
Good luck! :)
