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Goals
The principal goals of the Education and Training Target Area are
  • to identify and develop model curricula, course texts and teaching material, and delivery mechanisms;
  • to promote excellence in education at all levels, and
  • to foster exchange of ideas through inter-institutional interaction of staff and students.
These goals will be achieved in stages. The first goal is the development of a model curriculum on cognitive computer vision. The achievement of this goal has the dual advantage of identifying the scope of the subject area and the agreement of a common framework for teaching it. In this endeavour we will follow the approach of the IEEE/ACM Year 2001 Model Curricula for Computing (see http://computer.org/education/cc2001/). This work will involve a considerable amount of interaction amongst the members of the network, both by electronic communication and at dedicated workshops.

Once we have agreed the model curriculum, we will develop appropriate teaching material. One of the most important goals of this area is the creation of what will hopefully become a standard textbook on cognitive vision. We intend to achieve this by asking members to contribute a chapter to the textbook and a full set of teaching materials. These individual contributions can then be edited into a coherent whole. The text would follow the model curriculum quite closely.

Whilst the development of the curriculum and the textbook is in progress, existing material that members may wish to share will be made available on the network website and a comprehensive list of the teaching programmes of all members will be compiled and published on the website.

There are also other aspects to education and training, particularly at the post-graduate level. The network will part particular attention to the development of this area through the organization of tutorials and summer schools, by sharing ideas for research projects and sharing development platforms, by awarding prizes for post-graduate research, and by supporting short-term exchanges of people (staff and students).

Outcomes

  • Generation of a survey of existing courses on cognitive computer vision ยท
  • Generation of a model curriculum for cognitive computer vision
  • Generation of a textbook on cognitive computer vision, published either in paper or electronic form.
  • Contribution of courseware and/or course slides
  • Generation of an encyclopaedia of cognitive computer vision
  • Contribution of M.Sc. and Ph.D. project proposals
  • Sponsorship of Best Ph.D. prizes in Cognitive Vision Systems
  • Organization of summer schools
  • Organization of tutorials (e.g. at conferences)
  • Identification and sharing of common development environments (software and hardware platforms)
  • Contribution to VXL image understanding environment (VXL - the Vision-something-Libraries - is a collection of platform-independent C++ libraries designed for computer vision research; see www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vxl) or OpenCV (an open source library of computer vision code optimized for Intel processors; see www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/opencv/)
  • Short-term exchange/visits of research staff
  • Short-term exchange/visits of post-graduate students

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