Project Grant HD5017807

The Museum of the Moving Image received a $188,166 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve collections management and access to its permanent collection. Funded through the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301), the project will upgrade the Museum's collections management system, develop and implement a new public collections browser, and create 865 additional public-facing catalog records. These deliverables will facilitate expanded...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $174,176 to DePaul University to conduct research on making online videos more accessible to individuals who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, or have low vision. The key objectives of this 2-year research project are to: 1) create a taxonomy of common audiovisual video components that need to be adapted for accessibility, 2) conduct interviews...

The Academy Foundation, on behalf of a national consortium of film archives and libraries, was awarded a $211,540 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to research and design a searchable online resource for underrepresented film collections. The grant-funded project will develop a dataset gathering individuals and film titles from secondary sources related to social, gender, racial, ethnic, ability, sexual...

This Project Grant award of $600,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program aims to advance how machines interpret video content by developing new capabilities for analyzing extended video streams. The 3-year project, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will support research to address the extreme data volume inherent in long video sequences. The key technical focus is on a novel framework...

This four-year, $1.264 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of VOCAL, an open-source system for video organization and interactive compositional analytics. VOCAL will consist of domain-agnostic tools to support end-to-end video analytics, including interactively organizing large-scale video data, expressing and executing complex queries, and querying multi-view camera deployments. The...

The University of Richmond received a $179,287.71 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to develop the Distant Viewing Toolkit (DVT) for the Cultural Analysis of Moving Images. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. Under this award effective October 1, 2018 through April...

Folkstreams Inc. will receive $399,453 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program to support the preservation and expansion of its online collection of documentary films about American folk and roots cultures. Specifically, the Project Grant will enable Folkstreams to add 25 new films to its archive, upgrade 20 older films to 4K resolution by scanning 16mm prints, and enhance contextual information for 20 other films through added...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program provides $557,460 to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to advance the state of the art in generative visual AI systems. 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 are...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award of $599,996 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, supports the development of a novel video query-by-sketch system. The project aims to enable users to explore and retrieve video clips based on sketched trajectory patterns, overcoming challenges related to varying camera angles, perspectives, and user intent. The research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $239,431 to Auburn University to explore how events are structured in multimodal data and how they can be leveraged to design better, embodied AI agents that can construct and utilize compositional event representations to function in complex, real-world environments. The research aims to: 1) Learn the partonomy (hierarchical structure) of common events using Bayesian rose...