IGERT: Complex Scene Perception

这项授予宾夕法尼亚大学的综合性教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖支持为感知科学家和工程师开发一种新的培训范式，旨在为他们提供对感知现象的计算和心理物理基础的独特把握。它将创造一个新的榜样，一个全面发展的感性科学家，牢牢掌握计算和实验分析技能。这样一批美国研究人员的存在将有助于提高美国在不断增长的机器感知和机器人行业的全球竞争力。研究和培训活动围绕与复杂场景感知相关的五个主题领域组织：(1)空间感知和导航；(2)材料和地形属性的感知；(3)对自然信号、突显和注意力的神经反应；(4)上下文和视觉记忆中的对象识别；以及(5)敏捷感知。跨学科研究将使人们能够对人类和动物感知的惊人表现以及将使机器人在复杂场景中感知和行动的新算法的设计有新的见解。IGERT受训人员将在接受之前承诺参加一个为期五年的研究生培训计划，该计划包括以下部分：(1)核心学科培训；(2)在选定的第二个学科中进行一年的跨学科培训；(3)参加两个IGERT基础课程和一个综合IGERT课程；(4)出席IGERT跨学科研讨会；(5)由一个跨学科教员团队在整个5个研究生年中提供共同建议；以及(6)完成博士论文。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、对所选学科的深厚知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目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，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award to the University of Pennsylvania supports the development of a new training paradigm for perception scientists and engineers, and is designed to provide them with a unique grasp of the computational and psychophysical underpinnings of the phenomena of perception. It will create a new role model of a well-rounded perceptual scientist with a firm grasp of both computational and experimental analytic skills. The existence of such a cadre of U.S. researchers will contribute to the country's global competitiveness in the growing machine perception and robotics industry.Research and training activities are organized around five thematic areas related to complex scene perception: (1) Spatial perception and navigation; (2) Perception of material and terrain properties; (3) Neural responses to natural signals, saliency and attention; (4) Object Recognition in context and visual memory; and (5) Agile Perception. Interdisciplinary research will enable new insights into the astounding performance of human and animal perception as well as the design of new algorithms that will make robots perceive and act in complex scenes.IGERT trainees will commit in advance of acceptance to a five-year graduate training program, comprising the following components: (1) Core disciplinary training; (2) one-year cross-disciplinary training in a chosen second discipline; (3) participation in two foundational and one integrational IGERT courses; (4) attendance of an interdisciplinary IGERT seminar; (5) co-advising throughout the 5 graduate years by an interdisciplinary faculty team ; and (6) completion of the Ph.D. dissertation.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.