IGERT: Interdisciplinary Training in Perceptual Science

IGERT：感知科学跨学科培训

• 批准号: 0549115
• 负责人: Eileen Kowler
• 金额: $ 288.04万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549115&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Interdisciplinary; Training; Perceptual; Science

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports a new graduate training program at Rutgers University in perceptual science. The past decade of growth in perceptual technologies (automated recognition systems; usable virtual environments) has created the need for a new generation of realistic, comprehensive and innovative perceptual models, applicable to humans and implemented in machines. This IGERT will train students to develop and apply such models by integrating formal and experimental approaches to human and machine perception, bridging the gaps in language, perspective and knowledge that divide technically and behaviorally oriented disciplines. Training is organized around a new core curriculum in perceptual science that begins with foundational coursework in human perception and computer science, including bootstrapping courses to fill in gaps in undergraduate backgrounds. A cornerstone is a new one-year laboratory course, Integrative Methods in Perceptual Science, in which students learn to integrate human and computer perception by working on realistic projects in small teams with faculty mentors in a specialized multi-faceted teaching laboratory. Students will carry out integrative doctoral research, co-advised by faculty in human and computer perception, in one of 6 cross-cutting areas: animate vision, multi-modal cues for perceiving and grasping 3D objects, scanning and searching, visual-auditory integration, visual language, and visual communication. Broader impacts include development of novel perceptual devices and technologies usable in home, educational, clinical or industrial settings. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持罗格斯大学感知科学的新研究生培训计划。 感知技术（自动识别系统;可用的虚拟环境）在过去十年的增长创造了对新一代现实，全面和创新的感知模型的需求，适用于人类并在机器中实现。 该IGERT将通过整合人类和机器感知的正式和实验方法来培养学生开发和应用此类模型，弥合语言，观点和知识方面的差距，这些差距将技术和行为导向学科分开。 培训围绕感知科学的新核心课程进行，该课程从人类感知和计算机科学的基础课程开始，包括填补本科背景空白的自助课程。一个基石是一个新的为期一年的实验室课程，在感知科学的综合方法，学生学习通过在一个专门的多方面的教学实验室与教师导师的小团队中工作的现实项目整合人类和计算机的感知。 学生将进行综合博士研究，由人类和计算机感知教师共同指导，在6个交叉领域之一：动画视觉，感知和把握3D物体的多模态线索，扫描和搜索，视听整合，视觉语言和视觉交流。 更广泛的影响包括开发可用于家庭、教育、临床或工业环境的新型感知设备和技术。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。