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Intro and Logistics

CV4Ecology Workshop

Sara Beery | August 14, 2023

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Meet the team!

Caroline Murphy

Xenia Amashukeli

Sara Beery

Pietro Perona

Bjorn Lutjens

Leadership Team

Administration & Logistics

Instructors &

Teaching Assistants

Tarun Sharma

Suzanne Stathatos

Justin Kay

Shir Bar

Sam Lapp

Surya Hari

Manuel Knott

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Welcome to Caltech!!!

Today’s schedule

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  • Overview of logistics
  • 3-minute updates from everyone
  • Lunch
  • Reading Group Formation
  • Lecture by Manuel (IDEs, github, remote workflow)
  • Work Time
  • Break and Dinner

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Dorm

Course

Food

Food

Turtles

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Meals

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  • You’ve all had $525 added to your ID which can be used at the campus dining hall and cafes. This translates to a per diem of $35/day Monday-Friday.
  • Box lunches will be provided on field trip days

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We will be moving on Sunday August 27th

Students start moving back into the dorms, so we will be moving to a local hotel

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Course overview

  • Course runs Monday to Friday 9 to 5pm
  • Lunch breaks 11-1 daily
  • Dinner at ~6pm
  • We’ll eat together, more details on food later!
  • Field trips on Saturdays
  • This Sunday we’ll have a welcome barbeque hosted by the Resnick Sustainability Institute!!
  • Up-to-date schedule on the webpage: http://cv4ecology.caltech.edu/course_details.html

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Lectures

  • One lecture each day
    • Week 1: working on the cloud and via the command line, data processing, benchmark formation, and launching training
    • Week 2: evaluation and improving results
    • Week 3: efficiency, deployment, and quality control
  • Lectures are given by the instructors and TAs, the lecturer for each is listed on the schedule

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Assignments & Milestones

  • Group progress updates
    • Discuss shared challenges and collaborate
  • Documentation checklist
    • Designed to help document your decision-making process throughout the school
    • Structured to align with the components of a CV paper
  • Code Milestones
    • Timeline of milestones we hope to see students hit with their code and models
  • See the Syllabus for more detail!!

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Chen 320:

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Chen 322:

Working Groups & Rooms

  • Stathatos
  • Lapp
  • Alksne
  • Williams
  • Getz
  • Fiennes

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  • Kay
  • Narayanan
  • Mei
  • Appel
  • Marquez-Rodriguez
  • Frauendorf
  • Stefan
  • Tam

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  • Lutjens
  • Knott
  • Che-Castaldo
  • Rindlaub
  • Procko
  • Swanson

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  • Sharma
  • Bar
  • Amaral
  • Marzidovsek
  • Roberts
  • Holtz
  • Blair

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Compute

Each working group has a node with 8 A40s

Each node has 500GB attached compute, plus we have an “unlimited” data store attached to all nodes

We will work on connecting to the nodes and starting to copy data during Manuel’s lecture today and during today’s work time

Each person will have one node that they will use, and the groups can discuss how to use the 3 additional nodes

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Reading Groups

  • We’ll set up 4-6 reading groups focused on subtopics of computer vision (we will decide these as a group after lunch today!)
  • Each of you will be responsible for presenting 2 papers to your reading group during the school
  • For each paper, you’ll add a 1-paragraph summary to a shared document

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Invited Speakers

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Field Trips (tentative)

  • August 19th we’re visiting Semillas Community Schools
    • Bus pickup at Caltech in the morning
    • Visit Semillas Community Schools and their reforestation project with UCLA
    • Volunteers requested to present about their project to indigenous students
    • Sack lunch
    • Bus leaves after lunch for Caltech
  • August 26th we’re going to explore coastal ecosystems in Malibu
    • Low tide is 11:15
    • Bus pickup at Caltech at 9
    • iNat BioBlitz to capture data for coastal species
    • eBird checklist & test Merlin Sound ID
    • Picnic Lunch
    • Beach time in the afternoon, bus leaves at 3 for Caltech

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Emergency Contacts

  • In an emergency, dial 911!!
  • Caltech Security
    • https://security.caltech.edu/
    • +1 (626) 395-5000
  • Caroline’s Phone
    • +1 (415) 595-9032
  • Sara’s Phone
    • +1 (206) 853-9970
    • On WhatsApp!

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Honor Code

Many of the students are working on unpublished research using unpublished data. We agree that as CV4Ecology Community Members we will respect the integrity of others’ research and maintain confidentiality unless given explicit permission to discuss the projects outside of the school.

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Attribution after the workshop

The Resnick Sustainability Institute (RSI) requests that publications that were developed as part of this school acknowledge the RSI and the CV4Ecology Workshop