Project Grant 2549451
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded New Jersey Institute of Technology $250,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on semantic encoding and sensor-driven communication for privacy-preserving multi-site virtual reality systems. The project develops methods to transmit only the most relevant information while protecting user data, enabling virtual reality...
- 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 $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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Iowa State University of Science and Technology $648,169 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop automated methods for identifying and characterizing hardware side-channel vulnerabilities in augmented and virtual reality systems. The project addresses privacy risks in immersive devices that capture detailed sensor data on users' bodies,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded University of California Irvine $339,622 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop security and trustworthiness frameworks for collaborative immersive systems that use augmented, virtual, and mixed reality to enable real-time multi-user interaction in shared three-dimensional spaces. The project addresses security and privacy risks unique to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $356,997 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to mitigate privacy and security risks associated with the use of eye-tracking technology in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems. The key objectives are to investigate security vulnerabilities and new threats in the form of...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded The Johns Hopkins University $187,130 on October 1, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support collaborative research on flexible and safe disability representation in social virtual reality. The project investigates how social VR platforms can support people with disabilities in expressing identity through avatars while mitigating stigma and risks...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Texas State University $199,612 on July 15, 2026, under the Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop methods for automatically assessing the perceptual quality of volumetric videos in immersive virtual reality environments. The project develops a multimodal deep learning framework for point cloud quality assessment, addressing the gap that existing visual-quality measurement...
The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering awarded Portland State University $100,000 on October 1, 2026, for collaborative research on privacy-preserving multi-site virtual reality systems under the Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.079). The project develops methods to transmit only semantically important information in immersive virtual reality while protecting user privacy, addressing connectivity challenges that limit access to VR technologies in rural areas with constrained internet capacity. Work is organized into three interconnected tasks: semantic-aware encoding methods that identify and transmit relevant content paired with neural enhancement to recover rich features from limited data; integrated sensing and communication to track user motion and environment changes in real time and adapt transmission accordingly; and privacy-preserving computation methods including client-side filtering and secure distributed processing for multi-site VR contexts. System-level designs explore performance, reliability, privacy, and security tradeoffs across these capabilities. Portland State University leads this international collaborative effort with investigators from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Linköping University to improve shared virtual reality experiences across distributed locations. Performance runs through September 30, 2029, at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $100.0k | 8/2/26 |