REU Site: Engineers for Exploration

REU 站点：勘探工程师

• 批准号: 1852403
• 负责人: Ryan Kastner
• 金额: $ 39万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852403&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Engineers; Exploration

The Engineers for Exploration (E4E) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site engages undergraduate students from a broad range of disciplines in computer systems research motivated by real world challenges in exploration and scientific discovery. The site provides an intimate mentored research environment at the University of California San Diego and a structured collaboration with scientists, explorers, and engineers at our partner organizations. Past and present projects include collaborations with the San Diego Zoo Global, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Mexican Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas, Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education, US Department of Agriculture, National Geographic Society, Hubbs SeaWorld Research Institute, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the California Wolf Center. The participants create technology for conservation, cultural heritage, and exploration and are deployed around the world by site participants, scientists, and explorers for research expeditions in Belize, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, and Mongolia. The site targets participants from diverse backgrounds who do not have the opportunity to participate in this type of research. The participants work in a multi-tiered mentoring program interacting with faculty, scientists, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. When coupled with the community building activities, this makes a positive and memorable experience, encouraging participants to pursue further research training. During the ten week summer program, Engineers for Exploration (E4E) site participants work closely with scientists, explorers, and engineers to develop technology that generally focuses on remote sensing with elements in robotics, computer vision, data analytics, machine learning, and visualization. For example, previous participants designed, prototyped and deployed systems to create large scale visualizations of the Maya archaeological site El Zotz in Guatemala, track endangered iguana hatchlings across different Caribbean Islands, and document ecological characteristics of mangroves in Baja California, Mexico. The primary goal of this REU site is to expose the undergraduate participants to real-world, hands-on research projects. The participants work full-time during the summer to build technology that will ultimately be deployed in the field by scientists, researchers, and explorers. The development of this technology brings together the techniques and skills from the participants' undergraduate classes with real-world problems, and thus provides a sound connection between theory and practice. The hope is that exposure to cutting-edge, applied research will motivate them to consider graduate school and become the next generation of researchers. To accomplish this overall goal, the REU site has four specific objectives: 1) Involve participants in intellectually stimulating, multidisciplinary projects, 2) Provide real-world projects with mentorship from scientists and explorers, 3) Recruit and attract a diverse population of top quality students from a variety of backgrounds in engineering, and 4) Develop mentorship, leadership, and teamwork skills amongst the post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and REU participants.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

探索工程师 (E4E) 本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站吸引来自各个学科的本科生参与计算机系统研究，这些研究的动机是探索和科学发现中现实世界的挑战。该网站在加州大学圣地亚哥分校提供了一个密切指导的研究环境，并与我们合作伙伴组织的科学家、探险家和工程师进行了结构化的合作。过去和现在的项目包括与圣地亚哥全球动物园、斯克里普斯海洋学研究所、墨西哥国家自然保护区委员会、伯利兹研究和环境教育基金会、美国农业部、国家地理学会、哈布斯海洋世界研究所、国家海洋和大气管理局以及加州沃尔夫中心的合作。参与者创造了保护、文化遗产和探索的技术，并由现场参与者、科学家和探险家部署到世界各地，在伯利兹、开曼群岛、多米尼加共和国、危地马拉、墨西哥和蒙古进行研究考察。该网站针对的是来自不同背景但没有机会参与此类研究的参与者。参与者参与一个多层次的指导计划，与教师、科学家、博士后学者和研究生互动。与社区建设活动相结合，这将成为一次积极而难忘的经历，鼓励参与者接受进一步的研究培训。在为期十周的夏季项目中，勘探工程师 (E4E) 站点参与者与科学家、探险家和工程师密切合作，开发主要侧重于遥感技术，并包含机器人、计算机视觉、数据分析、机器学习和可视化等元素。例如，之前的参与者设计、原型化和部署了系统，以创建危地马拉玛雅考古遗址 El Zotz 的大规模可视化，跟踪不同加勒比岛屿上的濒临灭绝的鬣蜥幼体，并记录墨西哥下加利福尼亚州红树林的生态特征。该 REU 网站的主要目标是让本科生参与者接触现实世界的实践研究项目。参与者在夏季全职工作，开发最终将由科学家、研究人员和探险家在该领域部署的技术。这项技术的开发将参与者本科课程的技术和技能与现实世界的问题结合起来，从而提供了理论与实践之间的良好联系。希望接触前沿的应用研究将激励他们考虑读研究生并成为下一代研究人员。为了实现这一总体目标，REU 网站有四个具体目标：1) 让参与者参与智力刺激的多学科项目，2) 为现实世界的项目提供科学家和探险家的指导，3) 招募和吸引来自不同工程背景的各类顶尖学生，4) 培养博士后学者、研究生和 REU 之间的指导、领导和团队合作技能 该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

FishSense: Underwater RGBD Imaging for Fish Measurement

FishSense：用于鱼类测量的水下 RGBD 成像

• DOI: 10.23919/oceans44145.2021.9705929
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: MTS/IEEE Oceans
• 作者: Tueller, Peter;Maddukuri, Raghav;Paxson, Patrick;Suresh, Vivaswat;Ashok, Arjun;Bland, Madison;Wallace, Ronan;Guerrero, Julia;Semmens, Brice;Kastner, Ryan
• 通讯作者: Kastner, Ryan

Underwater Depth Calibration Using a Commercial Depth Camera

使用商用深度相机进行水下深度校准

• DOI: 10.1145/3567600.3568158
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems
• 作者: Wong, Emily;Humphrey, Isabella;Switzer, Scott;Crutchfield, Christopher;Hui, Nathan;Schurgers, Curt;Kastner, Ryan
• 通讯作者: Kastner, Ryan

Reducing the Barriers of Acquiring Ground-truth from Biodiversity Rich Audio Datasets Using Intelligent Sampling Techniques

使用智能采样技术减少从生物多样性丰富的音频数据集中获取真实情况的障碍

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
• 作者: Ayers, Jacob;Perry, Sean;Tiwari, Vaibhav;Blue, Mugen;Balaji, Nishant;Schurgers, Curt;Kastner, Ryan;Tobler, Mathias;Ingram, Ian
• 通讯作者: Ingram, Ian

Challenges in Applying Audio Classification Models to Datasets Containing Crucial Biodiversity Information

将音频分类模型应用于包含重要生物多样性信息的数据集的挑战

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML
• 作者: Ayers, Jacob;Jandali, Yaman;Hwang, Yoo-Jin;Steinberg, Gabriel;Joun, Erika;Tobler, Mathias;Ingram, Ian;Kastner, Ryan;Schurgers, Curt
• 通讯作者: Schurgers, Curt