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TITLE: NSF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN SENSORS AND IMAGING
Contributed by Dr. Vijay Jain, Program Director
I have joined the National Science Foundation as a Program
Director, effective Sept. 4, 2001. My activity at NSF includes
development and management of an area wherein the overall
objective is to support advanced research in sensors, imaging,
video, and communication aspects of engineering systems. The
area addresses certain interrelated twenty-first century themes,
which range from autostereoscopic multiview 3D video systems to
Internet television, from hybrid smart cards to deep-submicron
CMOS circuit simulation, and from wireless communication to
network simulation.
Specifically, the area includes the following:
Sensor, Imaging and Video Systems: Video systems, including
imaging, mosaicing, 3D video reconstruction of large-area
activities, video testbed for high-resolution 'autostereoscopic
multiview system' with parallax; Hybrid smart-card: 'multi-modal
sensor (possibly MEMS based)' plus Biological sensors, micro and
macro. Communication Systems: Wavelet based pulses, and their
use in broadband communication; New techniques for adaptive
equalization for wireless channels; Space-time codes; Space-
division multiplexing for wireless communication; Optical
circuits. Networking: QoS (QBONE, RSVP, Diff-serve, and other
protocols); 3D video over networks; Internet television; Optical
networks; Interconnection networks for arrays of PEs and/or MEMS
Computational Engineering: Parallel architectures and hardware
implementation for solution/simulation of electromagnetic
transients, partial differential equations, N-body problem;
Network simulation; Computing in the network Domain-specific
Computing: Examples - Deep submicron CMOS circuit simulation
using distributed models; Mathematical Physical Engine
(simulation of physical phenomena).
Please visit our website for information about the programs,
deadlines, and funding opportunities.
Vijay Jain, Program Director CNCI/ECS
National Science Foundation
4101 Wilson Boulevard, Room 675
Arlington, VA 22230
Email: vjain@nsf.gov
Voice: (703) 292-8339
Fax: (703) 292-9147
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NSF RESEARCH SENSORS IMAGING
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DATE: September 2001
TITLE: NSF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN SENSORS AND IMAGING
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