REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision

9424214 Shah这个项目是本科生研究经验网站的延续，该网站已经成功运作了七年。来自佛罗里达州六所院校的60多名本科生参加了这个项目。该机构的方法的关键独特元素是：(1)为参与者计划了一个完整的日历年的经验，这样他们就有时间跟随自己的实质性项目完成，(2)向每个参与者展示几个可能的项目主题，这样他们就会觉得他们选择了一个最感兴趣的项目。(3)让参与者几乎像研究生一样沉浸在一般的研究环境中，让他们每周与教师会面一次，讨论他们的项目，参加每周的研究小组会议，参加研究报告并会见来访的研究人员；(4)在一年的时间里，与学生一起写一份关于他们项目的技术报告，为GRE考试学习，并申请研究生课程。在过去的几年里，这个项目的大部分参与者都能够准备一篇论文提交给会议，论文被接受，然后参加会议并发表论文。几位过去的参与者甚至完成了足够多的研究，并在期刊上发表了论文。许多过去的参与者现在正在不同的机构攻读研究生。* * *

9424214 Shah This project represents a continuation of a Research Experience for Undergraduates site which has operated successfully for the past seven years. Over sixty undergraduate students from a half dozen institutions in Florida have participate in this program. The key distinctive elements of the approach at this institution are (1) to have a full calendar year experience planned for the participants, so that they have time to follow a substantial project of their own through to completion, (2) to present each participant with several possible project to topics, so that they can feel they have chosen a project which is most interesting to them, (3) to immerse the participants in the general research environment almost as if they were graduate students, by having them meet with the faculty member once each week to discuss their project, participate in the weekly research group meetings, attend research presentations and meet with visiting researchers, and (4) to follow through over the year by working with the students to write a technical report on their project, to study for the GRE's and to apply to graduate programs. In past years, a large fraction of the participants in this program have been able to prepare a paper for submission to a conference, have the paper accepted and then attend the conference to present the paper. Several past participants have even accomplished substantial enough research to also result in journal publications. Many of the past participants are now pursuing graduate studies at various institutions. ***