G9-11 | AI Lab Semester Summary 人工智能實驗室學期總結

G9-11 |AI Lab Semester Summary

At the end of last semester, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and Shanghai High School International Division (SHSID) jointly funded an Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab on Computer Vision and Machine Learning (CVML). Fifteen grade 9 to grade 11 students participated in this program.During the following winter break, the students were assigned with tons of reading materials as well as coding practice as a jump start. Since the beginning of this semester, AI lab program has been rolled out with full speed. Professor Ni Bingbing and his team from SJTU traveled to the SHSID campus every Friday afternoon to provide lectures on a series of AI topics with lab work supervision, as well as homework assignments. The first few lectures were not easy, yet with Professor Ni and his team’s vivid teaching style, the Friday after-school AI lab studies soon became the most expected one for many of the students. Throughout the semester, the students not only learned many topics in AI, but also utilized numerous libraries of Python, and then experimented how parameters in the codes producing different results. The semester ended up with small group projects on three topics: generative adversarial network (GAN), recommender system, and semantic segmentation and object detection.

On the afternoon of June 14th, the students visited the AI Research Institute of SJTU as the last session for this semester. The conclusion meeting opened up with a speech from Mr. He, the AI Research Institute leader at SJTU. He welcomed SHSID students for joining this program and talked about his vision on AI researches. Then, Professor Ni, the main instructor for the program, summarized the topics conducted during this semester and laid out his future plans. He suggested the learning of more practical subjects such as human face detection, image search recommendation and the design of unmanned ground vehicles, a few hot areas that could engage the students even better in the near future. Professor Ni also mentioned the wishes of many students—doing more challenging research projects, which can further enhance the students’ abilities in more dimensions.

After the opening speeches, the students went up by groups and each presented their reflection for the program, learnings from the final project, as well as the suggestions to make this program more productive. Every student reflected that they have benefited a lot through the AI course, and even extend some of the learnings in competitions outside of the school, as well as applying their AI knowledge into other activities. Then, Mr. Liao from SHSID wrapped up the meeting and hoped that the students can be motivated to achieve more in breadth and in depth under the guidance of Professor Ni and his team. The trip to SJTU successfully ended with a visit to the AI laboratory, where students got to witness the various fields that AI can be applied to and the astonishing results created by AI research.

Group Presentation SessionsThe research and application of AI would make a significant impact on every aspect of the students’ lives now and in the near future. The AI lab program was such an eye-opening to SHSID students that they look forward to more exciting learnings in the next school year!

人工智能實驗室學期總結

上學期末，上海交通大學與上海中學聯手創辦了一個為高中生學習計算機視覺與機器學習的人工智能實驗室。來自上中國際的15位同學參加了該項目。

在接下來的寒假里，學生們領回大量的閱讀材料和編碼練習作業作為項目的準備階段。從本學期開始，人工智能實驗室的學習全面展開。來自上海交通大學的倪冰冰教授和他的團隊不辭辛苦，每周五下午來到上海中學校園，帶給同學們一系列人工智能的專題講座，并輔以實驗室學習指導以及作業討論。最初的幾次講座有一定難度，倪教授和他的團隊的教學風格生動活潑，同學們非常喜愛，贊不絕口。整個學期下來，學生們不僅掌握了很多人工智能領域的知識，還學習了如何用不同的 python 庫，并對代碼中的參數進行了調試得出不同的結果。本學期以三個主題的小組項目結束：生成式對抗網絡、推薦系統和檢測分割。

6月14日下午，學生們在廖老師與何老師的帶領下，參觀了上海交通大學人工智能研究院，作為本學期的最后一次活動。匯報會在上海交通大學人工智能研究所所長何老師的致辭中拉開序幕。他歡迎上中國際的學生加入這個項目，并談到了他對人工智能研究的展望。隨后，課程的主講老師倪教授總結了本學期學習的主要內容，并介紹了后面幾個學期的教學規劃。他提到讓同學們學習更具實際性的領域，如人臉檢測、圖像搜索推薦、和無人車的設計。這些有趣又實用的課題激發了學生們對人工智能研究的興趣。除此之外，倪教授還提到了未來能做一些更具挑戰性的研究項目，希望提高學生們更多方面的能力。

接下來學生們以小組形式——展示了他們在過去的一學期中所學到的寶貴知識、他們對項目的思考和成果，以及對后續課程的一些建議。學生們提及人工智能課程的學習讓他們受益匪淺，有些學生甚至在校外的比賽及其他活動中，很好地應用了課上所學。最后，廖輝老師做了會議結束寄語：他希望同學們在倪教授及其團隊的指導下，再接再厲，更廣泛、更深入地學習人工智能。此次上海交通大學之旅以參觀學院里的人工智能實驗室圓滿結束，學生們在那里看到了人工智能在不同領域上的應用，以及通過人工智能研究產生的令人炫目的成果。

人工智能的研究和應用將對學生們今后的生活產生深遠的影響。人工智能實驗室項目讓他們大開眼界，他們也期待著在下一學年有更多令人興奮的收獲！

文：唐師禹 9(10)

Written by:Adelynn Tang 9(10)

Pictures by: Liao Hui

Edited by: He Tianzhou