The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Arizona State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) on January 1, 2024. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project to develop novel hardware platforms and algorithms for fusing optical and ultrasonic sensors to enhance computer vision and computational imaging capabilities. The key products and services to be delivered include:
- New rendering algorithms that can jointly synthesize optical and acoustical information in an environment, leveraging importance sampling techniques.
- Sensing models that trade off sampling across optical and acoustic modalities, utilizing multiple image sensors and acoustic transducers prototyped in real hardware.
- Applications of the combined vision and acoustics systems for 3D sensing, material identification, non-line-of-sight imaging, and robotic navigation.
The research insights will be disseminated through scientific publications, presentations, and open-source software/hardware designs. No subawards are planned for this grant.
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