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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $309,517 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant supports the development of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for analyzing data from weak gravitational lensing surveys, which can provide insights into the nature of dark matter and the structure of the universe. The research aims to advance simulation-based inference techniques, including...
This $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund research to develop more biologically realistic computational models of the primate visual system. Awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grant supports work at the University of California, San Diego from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to incorporate key features of human vision missing from...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $249,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on September 1, 2021. The grant is supporting research titled "EAGER: HYPERDIMENSIONAL COMPUTING WITH GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA" through August 31, 2023. The award is being used to develop new techniques for hyperdimensional computing using geometric algebra...
The University of California, San Diego will use a $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "SMALL: PHYSICALLY-BASED LEARNING FOR SHAPE, LIGHTING AND MATERIAL IN COMPLEX INDOOR SCENES" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant is funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and...
The University of California, Davis received a $328,084 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on July 1, 2021. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to advance the evolution of computer vision for low power devices and break through existing power and computational complexity barriers. Specifically, the university will conduct investigator-initiated research...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a $249,563 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project from July 2021 to June 2024 to develop graphical modeling techniques for multivariate functional data. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $341,618 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, titled "CAREER: Foundational 4D Human Video Understanding", aims to develop a new computational framework for analyzing 4D (3D over time) videos of human behavior and their physical/social context. The research will create transformer-based models to capture the 4D state of humans,...
This $600,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will support research to develop a new Bayesian diffusion model framework for advanced visual perception and cognition systems. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will serve as the primary awardee, with the goal of revisiting the analysis-by-synthesis methodology by integrating generative priors into the learning and inference...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 Vision Research) provides $611,546.00 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley to conduct research on the computational and neural mechanisms underlying sustained human perception. The project aims to investigate how attention and awareness affect persistent representations of visual stimuli, the structure and information content of field potentials and single neuron spikes in brain regions during...