This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, supports research to address security and privacy challenges in emerging metaverse ecosystems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) developing innovative defense mechanisms to protect digital mapping and synchronization against adversarial manipulation; 2) creating novel privacy-preserving distributed...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program provides $399,977 in funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research and develop strategies to enhance security, resilience, and privacy in emerging metaverse ecosystems. The project aims to achieve three key objectives: 1) Develop innovative defense mechanisms to protect digital mapping and synchronization against...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to address security challenges in immersive multimedia systems such as volumetric video, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The $134,303 award to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) aims to develop: (1) advanced face spoofing attack techniques leveraging real-time environment lighting estimation and generation,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $267,107 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Rutgers, The State University. The grant, titled "Collaborative Research: SATC: CORE: SMALL: Towards the Security of Immersive Multimedia Systems," aims to address security challenges in volumetric video, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) systems. The key objectives are to: 1) Demonstrate how state-of-the-art face...
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 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $238,545 to Rutgers, The State University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: SMALL: FROM CAPTURE TO CONSUMPTION: SYSTEM CHALLENGES IN PERVASIVE 360-DEGREE VIDEO SHARING." The funding supports investigator-initiated research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which aims to advance computing,...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $356,997 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to mitigate privacy and security risks associated with eye-tracking data in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems. The project, led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), will investigate security vulnerabilities and develop defense mechanisms to protect user eye-tracking data from...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $715,369 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027. The grant will support research to develop scalable design methodologies for distributed edge-cloud systems to enable multi-party augmented, virtual and mixed reality experiences. Key products will include innovations across the system stack to improve quality of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $399,999 to the University of Connecticut to develop an advanced, privacy-preserving multi-camera surveillance system for smart city applications. The project aims to create a novel real-time video analytics framework that leverages edge computing and cloud-based processing to address challenges in traffic monitoring and public safety. Key...