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

该奖项支持由来自美国教育机构的约10名参与者组成的博士联盟（研讨会），以及研究界的无薪高级成员作为导师，将与第15届电气和电子工程师学会（IEEE）自动人脸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面部、手势和身体运动识别的主要国际论坛。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，以及与各种应用的面部，手势和身体运动相关的机器学习技术。这些会议展示了这些领域和相关领域的最新研究成果，带来了交互系统、生物识别、监视、医疗保健和娱乐方面的新功能，并在形成相关的科学、学术和教育计划方面发挥了重要作用。博士联盟将为博士学位论文与自动面部和手势识别相关的学生提供一个机会，展示他们的研究建议，并从邀请的教师和行业研究人员委员会以及在这些领域工作的其他学生那里获得建设性的反馈。该活动将为学生提供宝贵的外部视角，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。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，并将培养一个支持的学者社区和合作研究精神，这将产生广泛的影响，因为从事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并包括来自代表性不足的群体（女性和代表性不足的少数民族）的学生，以及来自规模较小的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（就地区、就业类型和职业阶段而言）的导师小组，为这些学生提供建议。在会议期间，博士联盟将举行半天的活动。今年的活动将有四个不同的方面。首先，每位参与者将与一名在相关领域工作的受邀教师或工业研究人员配对，并将在博士联盟和整个FG会议期间担任他们的导师。其次，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，让学生向邀请委员会介绍他们的研究。第四，将有一个海报环节，让学生们向所有与会者展示他们的作品。这四项活动加在一起，将为学生提供一个与其他学生以及与相关研究社区的知名研究人员进行交流的良好和结构化的方式。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.