The University of California, San Diego received a $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop force sensing surgical forceps using novel piezoelectric thin-film transistor arrays for robotic surgery. The award period runs from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant funds research under the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education to improve quality of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the "PANOPTIC 3D PARSING IN THE WILD" research project. The three-year award, which runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024, will fund the development of technologies to enable panoptic 3D scene parsing using computer vision techniques for unconstrained images in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund a research collaboration titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: CLOSING THE TELEOPERATION GAP: INTEGRATING SCENE AND NETWORK UNDERSTANDING FOR DEXTEROUS CONTROL OF REMOTE ROBOTS" from February 2021 through January 2024. The grant aims to advance investigator-initiated research and education in...
The National Science Foundation awarded Montclair State University a $173,490 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from July 2021 to June 2023 on developing a bi-trust framework to improve collaboration between humans and robots. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research and education. This award will further those goals by exploring how...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $420,530 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project aimed at "Aligning Robot Representations with Humans". The key objectives are to: 1) develop new types of human...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $455,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The 4-year project, which started on July 1, 2024, focuses on developing techniques for a mathematical understanding of deep learning and its application to a variety of neural network models and data sets. The key objectives are to: 1) compare different networks and understand...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a 5-year, $165,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of this project is to develop algorithms, software, and systems that can automatically generate high-quality labeled data to mitigate the lack of labeled training data in specialized domains such as healthcare, legislation, and environmental sciences. The proposed approaches...
This $600,000 Project Grant was awarded on August 15, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award funds the development of a novel Bayesian diffusion model framework to enhance visual perception and cognition systems. The project aims to integrate generative models and analysis-by-synthesis techniques to enable improved 3D reconstruction, policy learning, image classification, and scene understanding...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2023, supports research to develop dynamic neural network architectures that can efficiently enable multimodal perception, including vision, audio, and language processing. The research aims to address...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $545,980 Project Grant to Princeton University from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research at Princeton University to develop generalization and safety guarantees for learning-based control of robots. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research...