Group Travel Grant for the Doctoral Consortium of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2018)

该资助部分支持来自美国机构的博士生联盟的学生参加在犹他州盐湖城举行的2018年IEEE计算机视觉和模式识别会议（CVPR）。CVPR是计算机视觉领域首屈一指的年度会议，有来自世界各地的5000多名高级，初级和学生参与者。该项目的更广泛影响包括支持计算机视觉领域一些最聪明的初级研究人员的职业发展，通过引起对研究生发展的一个重要方面的关注，为整个研究界做出贡献，潜在地增加STEM领域活跃的研究人员和教育工作者的数量，并确保计算机视觉社区通过其最近的毕业生，在解决造福全社会的问题方面取得快速进展。博士联盟的目标是在性别、种族背景、学术机构和地理位置方面拥有来自不同群体的代表。美国国家科学基金会资助了19名被选中的美国研究生参加博士联盟和CVPR会议的部分费用。博士联盟旨在突出获得学位六个月内的高级博士研究生（包括应届毕业生）的工作，并为这些学生提供与具有相关专业知识和经验的教师和研究人员讨论他们的研究和职业选择的机会。有机会从不同机构的专家那里获得关于他们的研究工作和职业规划的建议，并且可能有不同的观点，这在一个人自己的机构内部通常是不可能的。旅行支持的参与者和接受者由2018年CVPR博士联盟联合主席选择。差旅费奖励部分覆盖任何可接受的会议相关费用，如注册费、机票、住宿费和食宿费。今年的博士联盟以海报会议、一对一指导和小组讨论为特色。最后一个组成部分是在过去两年的活动中提出的，受到了很好的欢迎。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 grant partially supports the participation of students from US institutions in the Doctoral Consortium at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 in Salt Lake City, UT. CVPR is the premier annual conference in computer vision with over 5000 senior, junior and student participants from all the world. The broader impacts of this project include supporting the career development of some of the brightest junior researchers in computer vision, contributing to the research community in general by drawing attention to an important aspect of graduate student development, potentially increasing the number of active researchers and educators in STEM, and ensuring that the computer vision community, through its recent graduates, makes fast advances in solving problems that will benefit society as a whole. The Doctoral Consortium aims to have representation from a diverse group of participants in terms of gender, ethnic background, academic institution, and geographic location. NSF support covers some of the costs for 19 selected US-based graduate students to attend the Doctoral Consortium and CVPR conference. The Doctoral Consortium is to highlight the work of senior PhD students who are within six months of receiving their degrees (including recent graduates), and to give these students an opportunity to discuss their research and career options with faculty and researchers who have relevant expertise and experience. The opportunity to receive advice on their research work and career plans from experts from different institutions, and with potentially different perspectives, is often not available internally at one's own institution. Participants and recipients of travel support are selected by the 2018 CVPR Doctoral Consortium co-chairs. Travel awards partially cover any admissible conference-related costs such as registration, airfare, lodging, and board. This year's Doctoral Consortium features a poster session, one-on-one mentoring, and panel discussion. The last of these components was introduced in last two year's event and was well received.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.