Project Grant 90BISA0076

The federal Project Grant award, with ID 90BISB0039, was provided by the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) program. The $287,500.00 award, with a period of performance from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027, supports the "SIGN LANGUAGE DETECTION FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING PHASE II (SLDVC II)" project. The awardee, Govobo LLC, a...

This $549,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to create a framework for developing educational software that uses on-device sign language recognition to support language acquisition for deaf children and their hearing parents. The key products include: 1) Educational software and tools for American Sign Language (ASL) and Indian Sign Language (ISL), 2) Robust datasets...

This $405,106 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of linguistically-driven sign recognition technologies for American Sign Language (ASL) videos. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the Trustees of Boston University will receive funding from August 2022 through July 2025. The project aims to advance sign recognition capabilities from isolated signs to continuous signing videos. Key deliverables include novel...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $628,966 will fund research from August 2022 to July 2025 to develop technologies for recognizing American Sign Language (ASL) from continuous signing videos. The award was made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports research and education in computing and information sciences. The grantee, Rutgers University, and its partners will create a novel machine learning approach with three key...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $170,130 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to create a large sign language corpus and develop annotation methods to study visual prosody and its linguistic and emotional functions. The key objectives are to: (1) build a diverse sign language corpus inclusive of dialogues, (2) establish tested methods for annotating and representing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award for $299,849 to Gallaudet University in Washington, DC will explore the use of multiple cameras to record three-dimensional (3D) videos of social interactions and dialogues in American Sign Language (ASL). The goal is to create larger, more systematic 3D video datasets of social interactions that can be shared by researchers and the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (DDBHH) community to improve communication...

This Project Grant award of $260,027, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports the development of an artificial intelligence-based tool designed to improve collaborative learning experiences and outcomes for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges faced by deaf students in science education, such as the lack of standardized American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Community Living awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) program to 360 Empower Consulting, LLC in Orlando, Florida. The grant will support the development of AI-powered sign language recognition technology and direct video calling services to advance communication equity for the deaf community. The project aims to create...

This project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $149,999 to Gallaudet University to study American Sign Language usage. The university will collaborate with deaf researchers to analyze instances of "what" signs in a large sample of American Sign Language videos posted online. Through this analysis, the project aims to contribute to understanding...

This federal Project Grant award of $827,851 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports research on the American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English development of young deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. The primary objective is to characterize the language development trajectories of DHH children based on their varying access to signed versus...