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Al Bovik and LIVE Receive BaM (“Bammy”) Award®

Dec. 6, 2022
Al Bovik and the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) are the recipient of a BaM (“Bammy”) Award® from the International Trade Association for Broadcast & Media Technology, in December 2022, for "perceptual picture quality algorithms and databases for streaming and social media." BaM Awards® are given to “any product that is recognized by the judging panel is not just an innovative solution but is genuinely important to the market and sets the standard in its category.”
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Team LIVE Wins Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge

June 8, 2021
WNCG students Marius Facktor and Abhinau Venkataramanan and WNCG alumnus Praful Gupta from Prof. Al Bovik’s Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering (LIVE) have been named Phase 2 winners in the Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge. The challenge is hosted by the Public Safety Communications Research Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The competition aims to support public safety missions by advancing computer vision algorithms and no-reference (NR) metrics that assess image or video quality.