REU Site: NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision

REU 网站：NSF 计算机视觉本科生研究经验

• 批准号: 1461121
• 负责人: Mubarak Shah
• 金额: $ 40.29万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1461121&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; NSF; Research; Experience

This project represents a continuation of a Research Experience for Undergraduates site in Computer Vision which has operated successfully at the University of Central Florida for the past twenty-seven years. Approximately two hundred and seventy undergraduate students from sixty five institutions all over the country have participated in this program over the years. Each year, students will participate in a 12-week duration full-time Summer program. In past years, a substantial fraction of participants have been able to prepare a paper for submission to a refereed conference, have the paper accepted and then attend the conference to present the paper. The program will build these skills in participants: ability to write complex computer programs; ability to communicate orally about a research problem; ability to present one's project via technology such as PowerPoint; ability to do a poster presentation about the project, and answer questions; ability to think about computer vision issues in real life problems; ability to do initial reading of a research paper in computer vision; ability to contribute to discussion of a vision problem; and ability to embark on applying to graduate school. The research emphasizes development of new algorithms for solving scientific problems in visual geo-localization and segmentation, object detection, multi-target tracking, activity and event recognition. It advances both theory and practice; in mathematical modeling and analysis of difficult vision problems and developing algorithms, while at the same time building real systems for demonstrating those solutions in real life situations. The educational model employed by this site includes round-the-clock mentoring by a team that includes a professor and a graduate student; a streamlined short course that lets participants start their research projects sooner; daily meetings with mentors to plan activities throughout the day; training in MatLab for quick turnaround of research ideas. Participants take the short course on fundamentals of computer vision, match themselves to a project topic that they most desire, and spend sufficient time in focused research. Some possible research projects include: Location-Aware Semantic Segmentation; Multi-target Tracking with Social Behavior, Model, Human Action Recognition etc. After summer, students then can opt for follow-through over the year by working with the professors to write a technical report on their project, to prepare for the GREs and to apply to graduate programs.

该项目代表了计算机愿景中本科生网站的研究经验的延续，该网站在过去二十七年中在佛罗里达州中部成功运作。多年来，来自全国65个机构的大约七十名本科生参加了该计划。 每年，学生将参加一个为期12周的全日制夏季计划。 在过去的几年中，很大一部分参与者能够准备一篇论文以提交被裁判会议，接受论文，然后参加会议发表论文。该计划将在参与者中建立这些技能：编写复杂的计算机程序的能力；口头交流研究问题的能力；能够通过PowerPoint等技术提出项目；能够对项目进行海报演讲并回答问题；能够思考现实生活问题中的计算机视觉问题；能够在计算机视觉中对研究论文进行初步阅读；有助于讨论视力问题；以及能够申请研究生院的能力。这项研究强调了新算法的开发，以解决视觉地理位置和分割，对象检测，多目标跟踪，活动和事件识别方面的科学问题。 它在理论和实践上都提高了；在数学建模和分析困难的视力问题和开发算法的过程中，同时构建在现实生活中展示这些解决方案的真实系统。 该网站采用的教育模式包括包括教授和研究生在内的团队的全天候指导；简化的短期课程使参与者可以尽快开始研究项目；与导师的日常会议全天计划活动；在MATLAB中进行培训，以便快速研究研究思想。参与者参加了有关计算机视觉基础的简短课程，将自己与他们最想要的项目主题相匹配，并花费足够的时间进行集中研究。一些可能的研究项目包括：位置感知的语义细分；通过社会行为，模型，人类行动识别等多目标跟踪。夏季，学生可以通过与教授一起为他们的项目编写技术报告，为GRES做准备并申请研究生课程，从而选择一年中的后续活动。