REU Sites - Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision

shah， MubarakNiels J da Vitoria LoboREU网站：计算机视觉本科生的研究经验这个项目代表了过去13年成功运作的本科生研究经验网站的延续。来自佛罗里达州和佛罗里达州以外的几个机构的大约130名本科生参加了这个项目。我们的方法的关键独特元素是：(1)为参与者计划了一个完整的日历年的经验，这样他们就有时间跟随一个实质性的项目完成；(2)向每个参与者展示几个可能的项目主题，这样他们就会觉得他们选择了一个最感兴趣的项目；(3)让参与者沉浸在一般的研究环境中，就像他们是研究生一样。让他们每周与指导老师见面一次，讨论他们的项目，参加每周的研究小组会议，参加研究报告并会见来访的研究人员，(4)在一年的时间里，与学生一起写一份关于他们项目的技术报告，为gre考试做准备，并申请研究生课程。在过去的几年里，我们的REU参与者中有很大一部分能够准备一篇论文提交给会议，论文被接受，然后参加会议并发表论文。几位过去的参与者甚至完成了足够多的研究，并在期刊上发表了论文。我们过去的许多参与者现在正在不同的机构攻读研究生，有些人现在担任教职。

EIA -0097738Shah, MubarakNiels J da Vitoria LoboREU Sites: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision This project represents a continuation of a Research Experience for Undergraduates sitewhich has operated successfully for the past {\bf thirteen} years. Approximately {\bf one hundred thirty} undergraduate students from several institutions in Florida and outside Florida have participated in thisprogram. The key distinctive elements of our approach are (1) to have a full calendar year experience planned for the participants, so that they have time to follow a substantial project through to completion, (2) to present each participant with several possible project topics, so that they can feel they have chosen a project which is most interesting to them, (3) to immerse the participants in the general research environmentessentially as if they were graduate students, by having them meet with their faculty advisor once each weekto discuss their project, participate in the weekly research group meetings, attend research presentations and meet with visiting researchers, and (4) to follow through over the year by working with the studentsto write a technical report on their project, to prepare for the GREs and to apply to graduate programs.In past years, a large fraction of our REU participants have been able to prepare a paper for submission to a conference, have the paper accepted and then attend the conference to present the paper. Several past participants have even accomplished substantial enough research to also result in journal publications.Many of our past participants are now pursuing graduate studies at various institutions, and some are now occupying faculty positions.