Project Grant HJ5009912

This $343,324 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop empirically validated perceptual tasks for data visualization. The goal is to refine and evaluate a model of the lower-level perceptual processes underlying higher-level data analysis and visualization tasks. Researchers will conduct qualitative studies to document how people decompose tasks and then empirically evaluate proposed perceptual subtasks like filtering images, judging...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to investigate the use of pupil size as a tool for detecting mental imagery in humans and potentially other primates. The $199,552 award to Emory University will fund experiments to determine whether changes in pupil size can index the presence of visual imagery, even in individuals...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $763,142 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct research on the semantic content of tactile and visual textures for enhancing communication through vision and touch. The key objectives are to: (1) understand the semantics of visual texture for visual communication, and (2) understand the semantics of tactile texture for haptic communication....

This three-year, $350,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a knowledge platform and related tools to bridge the gap between visualization research and design practice. Specifically, the Trustees of Boston College will receive funding to build a comprehensive online framework for improving access to and learning about effective visualization design principles. This framework will consolidate existing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $111,878 to New York University (NYU) to develop a hybrid, vision-centric framework that integrates intuitive and deliberate visual processing methods. The goal is to build more robust visual intelligence capabilities that can adapt to complex, real-world environments beyond static image datasets. The project aims to advance techniques like...

This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), provides $179,964 to the University of California, Irvine to develop innovative deep learning-based biomarkers and predictive models for the diagnosis and management of optic neuropathies using optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. The project aims to leverage advanced computational techniques like deep learning, neural fields, and geometric modeling to extract...

This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) provides $881,796 to Siloam Vision, Inc. to develop two advanced, laser-based, AI-enabled retinal imaging systems. The key innovations are: A wider field-of-view camera design that can be paired with either a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, offering 2D or 3D imaging, respectively. This aims to address an unmet need in retinopathy...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign received a $317,039 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) to develop an open-source AI framework for digital libraries to explore, curate, and analyze large collections of digitized poetry texts. The project team will identify potentially underrepresented poetry groups, build labeled poetry datasets, develop AI models for understanding poetry, and...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of innovative snapshot computational imaging systems that leverage metaoptics technology. The project, led by Dartmouth College, aims to create computational camera simulators capable of modeling the complex interactions of light across various dimensions, and to leverage these tools to design and build...