Project Grant N000142312336

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 will support the development of omnidirectional 3D spatial reconstruction capabilities using consumer-grade mobile phone audio sensors. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award to the University of Michigan aims to advance computational modeling of sound perception and effective sound-vision integration. Researchers will collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset using sensor rigs...

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

This $690,650 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development and testing of a field-ready, cost-effective sound playback system for conducting eco-acoustic and marine larval settlement studies. The system will enable researchers to easily manipulate and introduce sound cues in field experiments to investigate how sound impacts diverse marine fauna, with a focus on coral reef ecosystems. The 2-year effort will build,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", provides $186,199 to Utah State University to develop an automated analytical technique to evaluate early auditory evoked potential (AEP) waveforms. The goal is to create a user-friendly, no-cost tool that can automatically analyze AEP responses and extract features to better identify various...

This $599,738 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research and development of a novel scalable acoustic Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The project aims to enable distributed, on-the-fly beamforming with low-power acoustic tags to deliver significant performance gains in range, throughput, and energy efficiency for indoor smart IoT applications. The research seeks to...

This $354,138 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports Colorado State University's development of an animal-borne adaptive acoustic environmental monitoring system. Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division will utilize the funding to create a wearable acoustic monitoring device and associated machine learning tools to allow wildlife to serve as mobile sensors. This will enable...

This Project Grant award, funded by 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 into the cellular diversity of the superior olivary complex (SOC) in the brainstem and its role in sound localization. The primary awardee, Northeast Ohio Medical University (Neomed), will conduct studies to understand how different types of SOC principal neurons, particularly...

This $249,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development of a long-lived, continuously operating seafloor geodesy reference station capable of operating in deep water. The grantee, Princeton University, will investigate using acoustic signals that only need to travel from the sea surface to the seafloor, removing the prior 3,000 meter depth limitation of existing seafloor geodesy techniques. This new approach involves...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey provides $599,986 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to develop an alternative distributed radio frequency (RF) sensing paradigm that can "look around corners" using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). The project aims to advance fundamental theory and practical methods...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,001 to Duke University to develop innovative analog correlators and circuits-system co-design to enable dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms to enable low-latency spectrum sensing....