Project Grant 1910940

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $134,303 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to investigate and address security challenges in immersive multimedia systems, such as volumetric video, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) demonstrate that state-of-the-art face authentication systems can be compromised...

This Project Grant award of $267,107 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to investigate and address security challenges in immersive multimedia systems such as volumetric video, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Demonstrating how advanced face authentication systems can be compromised by 3D face models using proposed...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 will support the development of omnidirectional 3D spatial reconstruction capabilities using consumer-grade mobile phone audio sensors. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award to the University of Michigan aims to advance computational modeling of sound perception and effective sound-vision integration. Researchers will collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset using sensor rigs...

This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at New York University to develop efficient computer systems for augmented and virtual reality through a perception-guided approach. Specifically, the researchers will design software-hardware mechanisms to quantitatively model human visual perception and leverage those models across system stacks to achieve an order of magnitude gain in...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $300,000 to the University of Illinois from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: MIVIRTUALSEAT: SEMANTICS-AWARE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION FOR IMMERSIVE MEETING ENVIRONMENTS." The research aims to develop semantics-aware content distribution techniques for immersive virtual meeting environments under the NSF's...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program project grant, awarded on July 1, 2024 for $750,000, funds the design and development of an innovative "Scan to Multi-Sensorial Interactive Learning Environment" (SMILE) infrastructure. The key products and services to be delivered include: Nearly automated construction of virtual reality (VR) environments that mimic real-world indoor scenes using 3D scanning. Multi-sensorial...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Trustees of Dartmouth College supports the development of new hardware platforms and algorithms to fuse optical and acoustic sensing for enhanced computer vision and computational imaging. The key objectives are to: 1) Design rendering algorithms that can jointly synthesize optical and acoustical information to recover environmental data; 2) Develop...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of low-cost, live-streaming 360-degree volumetric content capabilities. Blinxel LLC will leverage off-the-shelf hardware to enable the capture of human subjects using multiple depth sensors, compress the streams into a single video feed, and broadcast the content to mobile and extended reality devices using cloud services. The content can then be viewed on...

This $355,536 National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to revolutionize data analysis through the integration of immersive virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. The key objectives are to: (1) design intuitive 3D data organization and visualization interactions, (2) develop embodied interactions for data analysis tasks, and (3) enable an end-to-end immersive data analysis...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $998,251 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Yerba Buena VR, Inc. The funding will support the development of a low-latency, ultra-high-quality 360-degree video streaming platform for virtual/augmented/extended reality (VR/AR/XR) applications. This proprietary technology aims to overcome the limitations of existing video streaming solutions, which typically require tradeoffs...