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Prof. Al Bovik receives $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

Aug. 27, 2015
Professor Al Bovik, holder of a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Wireless Networking and Communication Group and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $450,000 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) entitled “Tasking on Natural Image Statistics: 2D and 3D Object and Category Detection in the Wild.”
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Prof. Joydeep Ghosh receives $496K from NSF

Aug. 18, 2014
Much of life involves setting priorities. In the age of information overload, the need to select relevant information and prioritize is greater than ever. Ranking product choices, identifying items of greatest relevance and interest and setting priorities are widespread issues in economics, health informatics and online networks.