This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with CFDA # 47.070, provides $356,997 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to investigate security vulnerabilities and novel threats in the form of side-channel attacks on foveated systems used in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications. The key objectives are to: 1) measure the vulnerabilities in current VR/AR...
This $600,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports research at Brown University to develop resource-efficient techniques for embedding advanced machine learning (ML) capabilities into augmented reality (AR) systems. The project focuses on a multi-task learning framework that integrates transformer- and convolution-based architectures with low-rank decomposition to...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at Penn State University to develop new virtual reality computing techniques and GPU hardware designs for mobile devices. Specifically, the three-year award aims to minimize the amount of VR computation through identifying redundancy among rendered frames for different users and reusing frames when possible. It will also investigate VR frame tiling...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 project grant to the University of Pittsburgh under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research into software-hardware architecture co-design for enabling true virtual reality experiences on mobile devices. The University of Pittsburgh will develop new virtual reality computing techniques and GPU hardware designs to minimize the amount of VR computation needed....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award, valued at $520,000 and dated October 1, 2024, aims to advance the software-hardware co-design for in-pixel and near-pixel compute for eye tracking in augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) applications. The research will focus on developing a multi-mode image sensor that supports eye tracking, featuring a successive frame differencing method...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $171,879 to Montclair State University to develop secure and privacy-preserving augmented reality systems. Over a two-year period from October 2022 through September 2024, the University will work to identify potential sensor injection attacks on augmented reality devices and propose defense algorithms using...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, aims to revolutionize data analysis by harnessing the capabilities of immersive virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. The $355,536 award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation will support the development of an end-to-end immersive data analysis workspace, with a focus on designing intuitive 3D data organization interactions,...
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 $599,848 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports research to reduce cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) experiences. The project aims to study how performing simple distraction tasks, such as listening to music or solving puzzles, can mitigate the nausea, headaches, and dizziness that many users experience when using VR technology. The research will test different task...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $599,649 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The goal of this 3-year project, which commenced on April 15, 2024, is to develop perception systems that can infer the 3D structure of generic objects or scenes from 2D images, even with partial observations. Key technical efforts will include formulating mechanisms for learning novel 3D generative...