Project Grant FA86551212138

The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement to Steg Ai Corporation under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a solution for copyright protection through imperceptible watermarking of digital images and videos using photographic steganography. The key products to be delivered include strengthening the technology in robustness to image/video mutations, real-time encoding, computationally efficient decoding, and...

This Project Grant award of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research to advance digital forensics techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The project aims to: (1) develop forensic tools for reconstructing and analyzing HDF5 machine learning model files, (2) evaluate data injection and detection methods for HDF5 models, and (3) design a systematic approach for "AI...

This federal Project Grant award of $746,866, provided by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560), will fund a comprehensive, multiphasic study to characterize the emerging forensic discipline of hand image comparison. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Establishment of a Hand Comparison Working Group to provide expert input throughout the study Development and...

This $500,000 Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program (CFDA 16.742), will enable the Tucson Police Department Crime Laboratory (TPDCL) to hire two entry-level digital forensic examiners. These examiners will focus solely on processing the increasing volume of mobile device extraction requests, allowing existing TPDCL staff to address the current backlog of analytical...

This $775,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a user-centered digital content forensics platform to protect the integrity of online digital content and maintain public trust. The project team at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is integrating multiple digital content forensic tools into a single platform, employing a user-centered design process to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $491,955 will fund research to develop a self-learning and self-evolving system for detecting altered and deceptive images and videos. The goal is to design an intelligent detector capable of assessing digital visual content integrity and automatically identifying falsified images or videos in real time to prevent their spread. The award to Vanderbilt University from...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $183,980 to support research on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of novel medical imaging modalities at the University of Arizona. The research aims to advance the underlying mathematics and image reconstruction algorithms for emerging modalities like photoacoustic tomography, magnetoacoustoelectric tomography, and ultrasound current density imaging....

This $128,425 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program (CFDA 16.742), will enable the Travis County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) Forensic Services Division to enhance its forensic capabilities. The key objectives are to: 1) Establish a firearm test firing station near the TCSO Forensic Services Division to test-fire all seized and found guns brought in as evidence, 2) Work through a...

This Project Grant award, valued at $499,902.00, was provided by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 16.044). The award aims to comprehensively characterize the performance of field-based color tests used by law enforcement and forensic laboratories, with the goals of assessing their accuracy, reliability, and error rates, as well as evaluating the impact of real-world sample compositions on test performance. The project...

Through this $540,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.543 - Missing Children's Assistance), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), Inc. will provide significant enhancements to the EZTriage digital forensics tool used by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces nationwide. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) integrating four additional forensic tools into the...