📝 Meeting 3

📅 Date: 27-09-2026

📍 Place: DETI

👥 Participants

  • Francisco Baptista
  • Inês Batista
  • Maria Quinteiro
  • Marcos Costa

1. 🎯 Meeting Objective

  • Review the inception phase
  • Organize the MS1 presentation slides

2. 💬 Discussion and Decisions

  • Discussion regarding the presentation slides, selecting the information to include so that the presentation is engaging, captures attention, and introduces the product.
  • Design of the architecture diagrams defined in the previous meeting.
  • Incorporate the schedule information into a Gantt chart in accordance with the project supervisors’ suggestions.

3. 📺 Slides Organization

Maria: Presentation Into + Context + Problems + Goals

  • Introduce the project, taking care to mention its name and tagline, and emphasize the latter (as requested by Professor João).
  • Introduce the team members, supervisors, and collaborators.
  • Fluidity between the context and the problems, framing the goals as the solution to what has been presented.
  • Following up on what Maria said, present the goals as a lead-in to the expected results.
  • Note that this is just an initial plan and is subject to change.
  • For the tasks, focus primarily on the pipeline, the web application, and the model.
  • Instead of individually explaining each technology presented in the “related work” table, the focus should be on highlighting the features our app will offer that do not yet exist.

Marcos: High-Level Architecture + Model’s Retraining Process

  • Focus on the important: Pipeline + API + UI.
  • Regarding retraining, address both scenarios: the developer-side manual and the user-side manual (giving users the freedom to validate the model and leveraging that important feedback for its training).

Inês: 1st Semester Calendar + Forecast for the 2nd + Communication Plan + Documentation Website

  • It is worth noting that the website features a much more detailed calendar, as it is difficult to display everything on a single slide without making it confusing.
  • Please note that the calendar is completely subject to change according to the progress of development.
  • The schedule was created with gaps on certain days precisely to account for the possibility of delays, which are bound to happen.
  • Discord Channel, Jira Backlog, Project is hosted on GitHub Organization: TreeLens.