Is there a paper / technique that interests you from the background research / reading?
Try reproducing it and then working on their future work paragraph
For me, I was at the same guest lecture as my future advisor was at. When I took a class with him, I asked him what research he did. After rattling a bunch of things off and seeing my lack of interest, he asked me "did you see the talk about evolving equations, want to work on that?" I replied "yes" and "yes!"
After spending a couple of years trying to reproduce and scale these systems (my advisor worked in related things), I grew frustrated with the prevailing techniques. So we set about trying to solve the same problem with the restriction that it should be a deterministic algorithm. This set me on my path to novel research and results
Try reproducing it and then working on their future work paragraph
For me, I was at the same guest lecture as my future advisor was at. When I took a class with him, I asked him what research he did. After rattling a bunch of things off and seeing my lack of interest, he asked me "did you see the talk about evolving equations, want to work on that?" I replied "yes" and "yes!"
After spending a couple of years trying to reproduce and scale these systems (my advisor worked in related things), I grew frustrated with the prevailing techniques. So we set about trying to solve the same problem with the restriction that it should be a deterministic algorithm. This set me on my path to novel research and results