WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

研讨会：自动人脸和手势识别国际会议上的博士联盟

• 批准号: 2315559
• 负责人: Maria Cabrera Ubaldi
• 金额: $ 2.13万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; Consortium; International; Conference

This award supports a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 participants from U.S. educational institutions, along with unpaid senior members of the research community as mentors, to be held in conjunction with the fifteenth Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020). The IEEE FG conferences are the premier international forum for research in image- and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. Their broad scope includes new algorithms for computer vision, pattern recognition, and computer graphics, as well as machine learning techniques relevant to face, gesture and body motion for a variety of applications. The conferences present research that advances the state of the art in these and related areas, leading to new capabilities in interactive systems, biometrics, surveillance, healthcare, and entertainment, and they play an important role in shaping related scientific, academic, and educational programs. The Doctoral Consortium will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students whose dissertations are on topics related to automatic face and gesture recognition to present their proposed research, and receive constructive feedback from an invited committee of faculty and industry researchers, as well as from other students working in these areas. The event will give students valuable exposure to outside perspectives of their work, and provide a comfortable forum in which to discuss and fine-tune their career objectives with members of the international research community, and identify areas that need further development. The workshop will also enable these young researchers to develop a network of contacts at a critical stage of their careers, and will foster a supportive community of scholars and spirit of collaborative research, which will have broad impact because graduate students who are conducting creative and groundbreaking work are the foundation and future of the community. The organizers will make a particular effort to recruit and include students from underrepresented groups (women and underrepresented minorities) and students from smaller schools or schools with less established computer vision research. They will also try to recruit a demographically diverse (in terms of region, type of employment and stage in career) group of mentors to advise these students.The Doctoral Consortium will be a half-day event during the conference. This year, there will be four distinct aspects to the event. First, each participant will be paired up with an invited faculty or industrial researcher who works in the related area and will act as their mentor both in the Doctoral Consortium and throughout the FG conference. Second, there will be a career panel during a working lunch where participants will have an opportunity to discuss their research and career objectives with other participants and mentors in an informal setting. Third, there will be a dedicated oral session for the students to present their research to the invited committee. Fourth, there will be a poster session for the students to present their work to all conference attendees. These four activities, taken together, will afford an excellent and structured way for students to communicate with other students as well as with established researchers of their related research community.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.

该奖项支持来自美国教育机构的约10名参与者的博士联盟（研讨会），沿着研究界的无偿高级成员作为导师，将与第十五届电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE）自动面部和手势识别国际会议（FG 2020）一起举行。 IEEE FG会议是研究基于图像和视频的人脸、手势和身体运动识别的首要国际论坛。 其广泛的范围包括计算机视觉，模式识别和计算机图形学的新算法，以及与各种应用中的面部，手势和身体运动相关的机器学习技术。 会议提出的研究，推进在这些和相关领域的最先进的状态，导致在交互式系统，生物识别，监控，医疗保健和娱乐的新功能，他们在塑造相关的科学，学术和教育计划中发挥重要作用。 博士联盟将为博士提供机会。学生的论文是关于自动人脸和手势识别的主题，介绍他们提出的研究，并从教师和行业研究人员的邀请委员会，以及从其他学生在这些领域工作的建设性反馈。 该活动将使学生有价值地接触到他们工作的外部视角，并提供一个舒适的论坛，与国际研究界的成员讨论和微调他们的职业目标，并确定需要进一步发展的领域。该研讨会还将使这些年轻的研究人员在其职业生涯的关键阶段建立联系网络，并将培养一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究精神，这将产生广泛的影响，因为正在进行创造性和开创性工作的研究生是社区的基础和未来。 组织者将特别努力招募和包括来自代表性不足的群体（妇女和代表性不足的少数民族）的学生以及来自较小学校或计算机视觉研究较少的学校的学生。 他们还将尝试招募一个人口统计学上多样化的（在地区，就业类型和职业生涯阶段方面）导师小组为这些学生提供建议。博士联盟将在会议期间举行半天活动。 今年，该活动将有四个不同的方面。 首先，每位参与者将与受邀的教师或在相关领域工作的工业研究人员配对，并将在博士联盟和整个FG会议中担任他们的导师。 第二，在工作午餐期间将有一个职业小组，参与者将有机会在非正式的环境中与其他参与者和导师讨论他们的研究和职业目标。 第三，将有一个专门的口头会议，让学生介绍他们的研究邀请委员会。 第四，将有一个海报会议的学生介绍他们的工作，以所有会议的与会者。 这四项活动结合在一起，将为学生提供一个优秀的和结构化的方式与其他学生以及与他们相关的研究社区的既定研究人员进行交流。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。