This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a total funding amount of $275,000.00, supports a collaborative research project exploring immersive video streaming technology. The project aims to revolutionize the way people experience 3D environments by developing an advanced system that leverages neural radiance fields, computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning to enable smooth,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,000 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to George Mason University (GMU). The 4-year award, effective October 1, 2024, aims to enable multi-user immersive content delivery over millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. The project will develop advanced techniques for 3D motion prediction, mmWave environment profiling, and scalable video streaming to support a large number of co-located...
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 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 $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of low-cost, live-streaming 360-degree volumetric content capabilities. Blinxel LLC will leverage off-the-shelf hardware to enable the capture of human subjects using multiple depth sensors, compress the streams into a single video feed, and broadcast the content to mobile and extended reality devices using cloud services. The content can then be viewed on...
This $557,460 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program Project Grant, awarded on October 1, 2025, supports the development of a new AI framework for real-time, scalable, and verifiable generative video editing. The key innovations include motion-adaptive cross-frame attention, pipelined frame scheduling for multi-GPU systems, formal verification of semantic consistency, and system-level validation on real hardware. These advancements aim...
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 $250,000 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to develop a privacy-aware, human-centered Quality of Experience (QoE) assessment framework for immersive 360-degree video applications. The project aims to leverage multi-modal sensory data to better capture users' subjective perceptual experiences when viewing 360-degree videos. Key research thrusts...
Intellerce LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on August 1, 2021 to support development of an AI-based collaborative video streaming platform. The award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which aims to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Under this one-year award concluding on May 31, 2022, Intellerce will develop a platform leveraging artificial intelligence technologies to enable collaborative...
The University of Massachusetts was awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant falls under the official federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will fund research related to "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: MIVIRTUALSEAT: SEMANTICS-AWARE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION FOR IMMERSIVE MEETING ENVIRONMENTS" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024....