IGERT: Complex Scene Perception

这项授予宾夕法尼亚大学的综合研究生教育和研究培训（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掌握。它将创造一个全面发展的感性科学家的新角色模型，牢牢掌握计算和实验分析技能。这样一支美国研究骨干队伍的存在，将有助于美国在不断发展的机器感知和机器人产业中的全球竞争力。围绕复杂场景感知相关的五个主题领域开展研究和培训活动：(1)空间感知与导航；(2)材料和地形属性感知；(3)对自然信号、显著性和注意的神经反应；(4)语境与视觉记忆中的目标识别；(5)敏捷感知。跨学科研究将为人类和动物惊人的感知能力提供新的见解，并设计新的算法，使机器人能够在复杂的场景中感知和行动。IGERT受训者将在接受前承诺参加一个为期五年的研究生培训方案，该方案包括以下部分：(1)核心学科培训；（二）在选定的第二学科进行为期一年的跨学科培训；(3)参加两门基础课程和一门综合课程；(4)参加跨学科的IGERT研讨会；(5)由跨学科的教师团队共同指导研究生5年；（六）完成博士学位论文。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，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模式，在一个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。

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.