This document summarizes a tutorial on making figures in PowerPoint. It covers two principles for figures: they should be easy to read quickly and self-contained with what, how and why. Captions should notify the reader. The document reviews how to access PowerPoint online or locally, use tips like colors and shapes, and import/export figures. It concludes with references on figure best practices and example papers.

1. Making Figures on PPT
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2. Content
• Read Figures: Two Principles (10 min)
• Make Figures: PowerPoint (5 min)
• Tips & Practice (5+ min)

3. Two Principles
• Easy to read in hurry
• Self-contained: what, how, why
• Caption: notify the reader*
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4. Two Principles
• Easy to read in hurry
• Self-contained: what, how, why
• Caption: notify the reader*

5. Two Principles
• Easy to read in hurry
• Self-contained
• Caption: notify the reader*
notify the reader
Kirillov, A., Wu, Y., He, K., & Girshick, R. (n.d.). PointRend: Image Segmentation as Rendering.

6. Two Principles
• Easy to read in hurry
• Self-contained
• Caption: notify the reader
• Learn the main points
• Figures (and Tables) + Captions = Story
• Color, shape, size, dashes, ...
We only read the figures in most of the papers
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7. Two Principles
• Learn the main points
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8. Two Principles
• Learn the main points
(1) (2)

9. Two Principles
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(3)
(4, 5)

10. Two Principles
• Learn the main points
• Figures + Captions (+ Tables) = Story
...
(3) (4, 5)
(6)

11. Content
• Read Figures: Two Principles (10 min)
• Make Figures: PowerPoint (5 min)
• Tips & Practice (5+ min)

12. PowerPoint
• Office 365
• Cloud-based Microsoft service: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote
and OneDrive.
• Easier File sharing: Configure OneDrive for Business.
• iOS and Android APP.
• Free Storage
• 50GB free of charge!
• Upgrade: contact the IT Service Desk to open a ticket.
• Get Started
https://portal.office.com

13. PowerPoint
• Office 365
• http://portal.office.com
• Edit online
• Share via link
• Edit locally
• AutoSave

14. Content
• Read Figures: Two Principles (10 min)
• Make Figures: PowerPoint (5 min)
• Tips & Practice (5+ min)

15. Tips & Practice
• Colors
• Color Brewer 2
• Office Theme
• Shapes
• Free form
• Icons
• Copyright?
• Import/Export PDF
• Other tools
• Paint, Photoshop, Python, Matlab, etc.

16. Reference
• CVPR18 Workshop: How to be a Good Citizen of the CVPR Community
• Kirillov, A., Wu, Y., He, K., & Girshick, R. (n.d.). PointRend: Image
Segmentation as Rendering.
• Guohao, L., etc. LC-NAS: Latency Constrained Neural Architecture Search
for Point Cloud Networks