Exposing Undergraduates to Computer Vision

佛罗里达大学在计算机视觉领域有一个强大的研究小组。然而，该大学的本科生目前还没有接触到这一日益重要的研究领域。他们计划开设计算机视觉的高级本科课程，让学生熟悉这一领域。他们的论点是，如果没有接近实时的计算机处理和显示能力，这样的课程就没有什么意义；通过直接操作高分辨率图像，了解各种计算机视觉算法的定性和定量行为是至关重要的。他们目前的设备限制了他们提供这样的课程给一个合理规模的班级（大约20人）的本科生。为了支持这门课程，他们正在寻求资金来购买一小组工作站。这些工作站将用于本科计算机视觉课程的实验室支持。设想的课堂和实验工作将给本科生一个机会，把他们在一个迷人的研究领域的必修课程中传达给他们的许多概念结合起来。

The University of Florida has a strong research group in the area of Computer Vision. Undergraduates at the university, however, currently have no exposure to this increasingly important field of study. They plan to offer an upper level undergraduate course in Computer Vision to familiarize students with this area. It is their contention that without access to near-realtime computer processing and display capabilities, such a course has little relevance; it is critical that one learn what the qualitative and quantitative behaviors of various computer vision algorithms are by directly manipulating high resolution imagery. Their current equipment holding prohibit them from offering such a course to a reasonable size class (twenty of so) of undergraduates. To support this coursework, they are seeking funds to purchase a small group of workstations. These workstations will be used for laboratory support of the undergraduate computer vision class. The class and laboratory work envisioned will give undergraduates an opportunity to bring together many of the concepts that have been conveyed to them in their mandatory course work in a fascinating field of study.