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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.
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Prof. Jeff Andrews Receives 2015 ASEE/HP Terman Award

May 14, 2015
Prof. Jeff Andrews of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has been named the 2015 recipient of the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). The Terman Award is bestowed annually upon "an outstanding young electrical/computer engineering educator in recognition of the educator's contributions to the profession."