On project-based learning through the vertically-integrated projects program

Author

Baxter, Meredith ; Byun, Byungki ; Coyle, Edward J. ; Dang, Tuan ; Dwyer, Thomas ; Kim, Ilseo ; Lee, Chin-Hui ; Llewallyn, Ross ; Sephus, Nashlie

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2011

Abstract

Georgia Tech´s Colleges of Engineering and Computing initiated the Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program in January 2009. Undergraduate students that join VIP teams earn academic credit for participating in design efforts that assist faculty and graduate students with research and development issues in their technical areas. The teams are: multidisciplinary - drawing students from around the university; vertically-integrated - maintaining a mix of sophomores through PhD students each semester; and long-term - each undergraduate student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. We describe the Video and Image Annotation VIP (VIA-VIP) project, which provides undergraduates unique opportunities to learn and apply state-of-the-art video-mining algorithms by processing a large archive of football videos recorded from GT football games. Their results are documented. Based on their feedback we believe the VIA-VIP course is on track to meet the needs of undergraduates in areas they don´t usually see in the traditional undergraduate classroom.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; data mining; educational courses; educational institutions; video signal processing; Georgia Tech Colleges of Engineering and Computing; VIA-VIP course; academic credit; football game; football video; long-term team; multidisciplinary team; project-based learning; research and development issue; vertically-integrated projects program; vertically-integrated team; video and image annotation VIP project; video mining algorithm; Cameras; Cities and towns; Education; Hidden Markov models; Materials; Tracking; Transforms; project-based learning and education; vertically-integrated projects; video and image annotation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2011

Conference_Location

Rapid City, SD

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-468-8

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2011.6143064

Filename

6143064