Group Support Grant for IEEE/CVF CVPR 2020 Doctoral Consortium

该奖项支持美国院校的学生参加2020年IEEE计算机视觉与模式识别会议的博士联盟，该会议将因新冠肺炎而虚拟举行。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9000多人参加。该奖项帮助计算机视觉领域一些最聪明的初级研究人员的职业发展，以增加STEM中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毕业的学生，在解决造福整个社会的问题方面取得快速进展。博士联盟的目标是让不同的参与者在性别、种族背景、学术机构和地理位置方面都有代表。NSF的支持涵盖了40名选定的美国研究生参加博士联盟和CVPR会议的部分费用。博士生联盟强调了在获得学位后六个月内的高级博士生(包括新近毕业的学生)的工作，并为这些学生提供了与拥有相关专业知识和经验的教职员工讨论他们的研究和职业选择的机会。由于就业前景的不确定性以及新冠肺炎引发的传统人脉和招聘活动的中断，从不同机构的专家那里获得关于他们研究工作和职业规划的建议的机会尤为重要。参与者和支持接受者由2020年CVPR博士联合会主席选出。支助包括可受理的与会议有关的费用，如注册费用。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，所有这些都是虚拟举行的。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为是值得支持的。

This award supports the participation of students from US-based institutions in the Doctoral Consortium at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, which will be held virtually due to COVID-19. CVPR is the premier annual conference in computer vision with over 9000 participants from all over the world. The award helps the career development of some of the brightest junior researchers in computer vision to increase the number of active researchers and educators in STEM and ensures 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 40 selected US-based graduate students to participate in the Doctoral Consortium and CVPR conference. The Doctoral Consortium highlights the work of senior PhD students who are within six months of receiving their degrees (including recent graduates) and gives 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 is particularly important due to the uncertainty of job prospects and disruption of traditional networking and recruiting events caused by COVID-19. Participants and recipients of support are selected by the 2020 CVPR Doctoral Consortium Chair. The support covers admissible conference-related costs such as registration. This year's Doctoral Consortium features a poster session, one-on-one mentoring, and panel discussion, all held virtually. These components were introduced in past doctoral consortiums and were 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.